Expedition

Italian Mission at Ayia Irini (Palaeokastro)

Cyprus

Expedition; part of Istituto per gli Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici (ISMEA). 4 people in the register connected with it.

History

1971
A very long campaign at three places on the site. At the seaside cemetery (Palaeokastro) fifteen tombs under Pecorella, fourteen already plundered and one intact; the cemetery served LC I, late Geometric and the Archaic period. Quilici dug the town site (900 sq m by 1971, plus a 90 m trench).
Ayia Irini, PalaeokastroP. E. Pecorella L. Quilici Carlo Gallavotti Karageorghis 1972
1972
Under Carlo Gallavotti with Pecorella, Quilici and Rocchetti as directors of works. Pecorella and Rocchetti dug 25 tombs at Palaeokastron, all Archaic, several intact (including an Euboean skyphos); five more tombs at Kharangas, all plundered; the Quilicis exposed much of the Hellenistic and Roman small town including a public bath.
Ayia IriniP. E. Pecorella L. Rocchetti L. Quilici Carlo Gallavotti Karageorghis 1973
1977
Pecorella publishes the Late Bronze Age tombs of the seaside necropolis (Le tombe dell'eta del bronzo tardo della necropoli a mare di Ayia Irini, Paleokastro, Rome).
RomeP. E. Pecorella Houby-Nielsen 2016, p. 12

4 people

L. Quilicifield-director (1971–1972) · director of works, town site at PalaeokastroKarageorghis 1972 Karageorghis 19731970
L. Rocchettifield-director (1972–1972) · director of works (1972)Karageorghis 19731971
P. E. Pecorellafield-director (1971–1972) · director of works (directeur des travaux), 1972; directed the 1971 digKarageorghis 1972 Karageorghis 19731971
Carlo Gallavottidirector (1971–1972)Karageorghis 1973