Reconstructions
Ancient Cyprus, Rebuilt from the Evidence
Each reconstruction rebuilds a building, object or place of ancient Cyprus from what excavation has recovered, with images made at the time and experiments that tested how things were made. Each is set out as a report, with plans, sections and elevations drawn as an excavation report would draw them, and most also have a 3D model to walk round, build step by step or take apart.
Throughout, what was excavated is kept apart from what is inferred, reconstructed or guessed: the difference is marked in line on the drawings and in shading on the model. Versions that the evidence rules out are drawn too, in a style of their own.
Featured · Building · Middle Chalcolithic
A Chalcolithic Round House, Layer by Layer
c. 3500–2900 BC · Kissonerga-Mosphilia and Lemba-Lakkous
A middling house of the Middle Chalcolithic, rebuilt from the excavated buildings of Kissonerga and Lemba in the west of the island, from a clay model of a house made at the time, and from the experimental village built at Lemba in the late 1980s. The drawings show it as an excavation report would; the 3D model can be walked round, built step by step and taken apart.
Formats: Measured drawings · 3D model · Build sequence · Guided tour
Catalogue
7 reconstructions, earliest first
Neolithic
About the period →Chalcolithic
About the period →Building · Middle Chalcolithic
A Chalcolithic Round House, Layer by Layer
c. 3500–2900 BC · Kissonerga-Mosphilia and Lemba-Lakkous
A single circular room on a low stone socle, with walls of hand-laid mud and a flat roof of timber, reeds and earth, rebuilt from the excavated houses of Kissonerga and Lemba.
Formats: Measured drawings · 3D model · Build sequence · Guided tour
Building · Late Chalcolithic
The Pithos House at Kissonerga
c. 2700–2500 BC · Kissonerga-Mosphilia
A large Late Chalcolithic round house of stone at Kissonerga, burnt with its stores inside: some thirty-seven storage jars, about 4,000 litres, on stands along its walls and loose across its floor.
Formats: Measured drawings · 3D model · Build sequence · Guided tour
Early Bronze Age
About the period →Building · Philia to Middle Cypriot I
The Marki House Through Five Centuries
c. 2400–1800 BC · Marki-Alonia
One plot of ground in the Early Bronze Age village of Marki-Alonia, followed from an open yard shared by two Philia households to a walled house of stone and mudbrick with screened hearths and neighbours on every side.
Formats: Measured drawings · 3D model · Build sequence · Guided tour
Building · Early Cypriot III
A Stone House at Sotira-Kaminoudhia
c. 2300–2200 BC · Sotira-Kaminoudhia
An Early Bronze Age house of three rooms on a hillside above Sotira, built of tabular limestone to the roof and covered with a flat roof of beams, reeds, brush and earth.
Formats: Measured drawings · 3D model · Build sequence · Guided tour
Roman
About the period →Building · Hellenistic to Late Roman
The Theatre at Kourion
late 2nd century BC to the later 4th century AD · Kourion
The Roman theatre on the Kourion bluff in seven states, from the smaller Hellenistic theatre through Trajan's enlargement and the marble stage to the hunting theatre and the ruin restored in 1961-63.
Formats: Measured drawings · 3D model · Build sequence · Guided tour
Building · Late Roman
The Earthquake House at Kourion
later 4th century AD · Kourion
A late Roman house of mudbrick on stone socles round a small paved court, brought down by an earthquake in the later 4th century AD, rebuilt as it stood on its last day and as it was first built.
Formats: Measured drawings · 3D model · Build sequence · Guided tour