Vavla-Kapsalaes: Papantoniou and Kyriakou's excavation

Giorgos Papantoniou and Niki Kyriakou used Vavla-Kapsalaes in a 2018 article as a case study of the relationship between extra-urban sacred space and political and cultural identities, combining archaeological and geographic data in GIS analyses¹. They thank I. A. Todd for allowing them to study unpublished material from the site¹. Papantoniou and Vionis report that archaeological evidence and cost-surface analysis supported connecting the sanctuary with Amathous². Kearns describes the sanctuary as Archaic to early Hellenistic, with surface remains of figurines and statuaries of a Pan-like god, and cautions that reading sites near borderlands such as Vavla Kapsalaes as top-down political operations can overgeneralize and obscure local variation³.