Limassol District Museum

District archaeological museum of the Department of Antiquities, holding Limassol-district finds from Neolithic to Roman: Amathus (palace sculpture, tombs), Kourion/Episkopi, Erimi, plus loans and gifts. No published count found. (2024)

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1. 1952
   Contents of Roman tombs found accidentally at Phterikoudhi and Polemidhia (glass, lamps, coins) excavated by the Department of Antiquities and placed in the Cyprus and Limassol Museums respectively

   PolemidhiaMegaw 1953

2. 12 March 1953
   Marika Sokratous presents a whitish marble slab with a six-line funerary inscription (Mitford, Kourion no. 156), said to have been found about 1933 in the Episkopi area by Isokrates Papadopoulos; N. Petrides, custodian of the Limassol Museum, first gave its text in facsimile (Cyprus Museum file 27/53)

   EpiskopiMarika SokratousIsokrates PapadopoulosN. PetridesMitford 1971

3. 1953
   Annual Archaeological Reports note an Erimi-stage surface find from Palaiomylos near Ayios Thomas, a headless andesite fiddle-shaped idol, now in the Limassol Museum

   Ayios ThomasMegaw 1954

4. 1954
   The Cypriot pottery collection formed by N. P. Lanitis, a Limassol company director, is placed on permanent loan to the Limassol District Museum; its finest vases are Proto-White Painted and are thought to come from the Limassol district, probably Kourion. The 1958 chronicle says Mr and Mrs P. Lanitis lent pottery of all periods, Hellenistic and Roman glass and terracottas

   LimassolN. P. LanitisKarageorghis 1965, p. 8Karageorghis 1959

5. 1961
   V. Vlamis presents an Attic black-figure skyphos found at Amathus (inv. 312), with a quadriga on each face

   AmathusV. VlamisKarageorghis 1962

6. 1966
   Ch. Cacoyiannis gives a large Red Polished III jug with relief rosettes and wavy lines (reg. 387)

   LimassolCh. CacoyiannisKarageorghis 1967

7. 1967–1970
   The museum, housed in the medieval castle at Limassol, is reported closed to the public in 1967 'because of the present conditions'; a new building is planned for 1969 or 1970, still delayed in 1969, while the collections kept growing through rescue excavations and purchase

   LimassolNicolaou 1968Nicolaou 1970

8. 1968
   The museum acquires Red Polished pottery from a looted tomb at Kilades in the village lands of Evdimou (LLM 452)

   EvdimouNicolaou 1969

9. 1969
   Acquisitions include a Roman sandstone male head from Phassoula (Lim. M. 393/1) and a Cypro-Archaic I tomb group from Limassol town (Bichrome IV amphorae, oenochoe, skyphos; Lim. M. 397)

   LimassolNicolaou 1970

10. 1970
    Acquisitions include a Red Polished amphora from an EBA tomb at Pyrgos (LimM 473/9.2), a White Polished fusiform bottle from Katholiki, Limassol (LimM 478/4) and the contents of a Cypro-Geometric tomb at Amathus-Kafikalla (LimM 484)

    Limassol districtNicolaou 1972

11. 1976–1980
    Principal acquisitions reported for 1976-80 include a limestone female figurine from Erimi (Lim.M 623/2), bell-shaped terracotta figurines from Limassol (Lim.M 580/7-8) and Bichrome Red amphorae (Lim.M 577/8, 581/1); in 1977 a large number of Late Cypriote objects were found at the east of Limassol town

    LimassolNicolaou 1981

• Whitish marble slab with six-line funerary inscription of Niketes, 0.225 x 0.155 x 0.025 m (Kourion no. 156)

  from Episkopi area (said)via Marika Sokratous12 March 1953Mitford 1971

• Attic black-figure skyphos with a quadriga on each face

  312from Amathusvia V. Vlamis1961Karageorghis 1962

• Large Red Polished III jug, globular body, relief rosettes and wavy lines

  reg. 387via Ch. Cacoyiannis1966Karageorghis 1967

• Mycenaean-type vase, ex Lanitis collection (Graziadio cat. 76), provenance unknown

  Graziadio

• Aegean-type pottery from Limassol (Enaelios) excavations (Graziadio cat. 46)

  LM 621from Limassol, EnaeliosGraziadio

• Limestone female figurine from Erimi, height 0.11 m

  Lim.M 623/2from ErimiNicolaou 1981

• Bird-on-plinth figurines from the Amathus palace (e.g. AM 10, AM 252, AM 407, AM 1812)

  AM 10 / 252 / 407 / 1812from Amathus, palaceDissinger 2017

• Roman sandstone male head

  Lim. M. 393/1from Phassoula1969Nicolaou 1970

• How Cypriot Figurines Are ClassifiedCompendium