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Xylotymbou-Katapetra: Larnaca District Museum rescue of a Bronze Age tomb (1999)

1999 · Xylotymbou

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Where the work took place

  • Ground above 200, 500, 1,000 m

Site

  1. 1Xylotymbou (approx.)
Modern coastline (OpenStreetMap) and relief (Copernicus DEM).

Institutions

Seasons

1 season
  1. 1999

    Rescue during earthmoving for a settling basin on private land revealed a tomb dated to the transition from Middle to Late Bronze Age, with two cut chambers and abundant goods: pottery, jewellery, bronze tools and swords, a faience scarab and a faience cylinder seal. Objects include a bronze sphekoterion, a bird-shaped White Painted askos, and a bronze tweezers.

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What was found

Periods

Features and finds

Xylotymbou T. 1.

Tombs

Xylotymbou T. 1

Publications

1 item

Chronique des fouilles (Bulletin de correspondance hellénique)

Related

Sources

  1. 1.Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1999, pp. 666–667.

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