Rescue excavationDepartment of Antiquities
Vasilia: Department of Antiquities rescue work
1965–1972 · Vasilia
Department of Antiquities work at Vasilia in 1965 and 1972: a partly looted Cypro-Geometric III tomb at Loukkos Trachonas, surface finds at Alonia and a second tomb in 1972.
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Where the work took place
- Main site
- Also worked at
- Ground above 200, 500, 1,000 m
Sites
- 1Vasilia (approx.)
- 2Vasilia-Alonia (approx.)
The project
In 1965 the Department of Antiquities opened a partly looted tomb in a newly discovered Cypro-Geometric III cemetery at Loukkos Trachonas, about 800 m northwest of Vasilia1. Its pottery included White-Painted II and Red-Slip I (III), and a jug 18 cm high combining a White-Painted shoulder with Black Slip treatment is registered as CS 1500 in the Musée de Chypre1. Surface collection the same year produced a fragmentary Black Slip-and-Combed bowl (CS 1522) from an Early Bronze Age cemetery area near the Yannitsaros river1, and, at Alonia, Chalcolithic Red-on-White sherds, steatite axes, a green-stone chisel, a copper axe and a copper dagger1. In 1972 a tomb was found at Trachonas, about 3 km northwest of the village beside the Nicosia-Kyrenia road, and is assigned to Cypro-Geometric III on its Black-on-Red I (III) and Black Slip III pottery; it is registered as CS 18962.
Institutions
Seasons
2 seasons- 1965
New Cypro-Geometric III cemetery (same site as an Early Bronze Age cemetery); one part-looted tomb with White Painted II and Red Slip I vases, including a jug mixing White Painted and Black Slip techniques. Sherds from the Early Bronze Age cemetery area, including a Black Slip-and-Combed bowl, relevant to the beginning of the Early Bronze Age. Chalcolithic Red-on-White sherds with steatite axes, a green-stone chisel, a copper axe and a copper dagger with a small socket.
- 1972
A tomb with Black-on-Red I (III) and Black Slip III pottery, attributed to Cypro-Geometric III.
What was found
Publications
2 itemsChronique des fouilles (Bulletin de correspondance hellénique)
Related
Other fieldwork at Vasilia · 2
References
- 1.V. Karageorghis, 1966, Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1965, Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 90.
- 2.V. Karageorghis, 1973, Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1972, Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 97.
Sources
- 1.Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1965, p. 24; p. 33; pp. 31–33.
- 2.Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1972, pp. 13.