The Department of Antiquities, Ministry of Transport, Communications as well as Works has announced the completion of the University of Republic of Cyprus annual champaign motility on the tumulus of Laona at Palaepaphos which took house inward June as well as September as well as lasted 4 weeks. The Laona tumulus is monumental inward size (100m. x 60m. x 10m.) as well as every bit such remains unique inward Republic of Cyprus to this day. The man-made mound was identified for the firstly fourth dimension inward 2012 inward the context of the Palaepaphos Urban Landscape projection carried out past times Professor Maria Iacovou of the Department of History as well as Archaeology since 2006.
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| View of the excavations at the Laona tumulus [Credit: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus] |
The depression hillock of Laona, on which the tumulus was raised, lies at a distance of i kilometer to the due east of the sanctuary of Aphrodite from where it is clearly visible. At the showtime of the fifth century BC, the purplish dynasty of the city-state of Ancient Paphos implemented an ambitious edifice programme on the plateau of Hadjiabdoulla, where a purplish residence as well as an extensive economical complex were constructed.
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| Plan of the exacations inward the SE quarter of the tumulus [Credit: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus] |
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| Small monument close the summit of the tumulus [Credit: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus] |
The ceramic testify suggests that the structure of the mound dates to the 3rd century BC. Since 2013, the excavations are concentrated inward the SE quarter. About 12m. due south of the summit, which rises to 114 higher upward body of body of water level, the UC squad found at a depth of over vi meters a pocket-size foursquare (4mx4m) monument. Although its due east wall stands to a summit of 3,5m., the edifice was already one-half destroyed when the mound was constructed. It has a foundation ledge made of unworked stones as well as cherry clay. However, in that place is no relation betwixt the external as well as internal edifice invention of the monument; the exclusively purpose that would get got been visible higher upward dry reason are the external walls made of worked blocks.
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| Foundations of unworked stones supporting the monument [Credit: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus] |
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| External walls of the monument [Credit: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus] |
The mystery of the absence of the westward wall was solved when the interrogation squad identified on the due south department of the mound that had covered the edifice a man-made cutting terminating where the westward wall was meant to be. The cutting was afterwards “mended” amongst a unlike type of soil. The westward wall was thoroughly destroyed downwardly to its foundation base, which rests on bedrock. There is trivial dubiety that this was the travel of ancient tomb robbers. They expected to loot a burial sleeping room but, apparently, they had relied on the untrustworthy information or assumption. Maybe this was the primary role of the pocket-size building: to divert attending away from the put of the burial chamber. Looted or not, the burial sleeping room or the cenotaph, inward the advert of which the tumulus of Laona was raised, continuous to evade ditection.
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| Aerial persuasion of the monument [Credit: Department of Antiquities, Cyprus] |
Source: The Department of Antiquities, Republic of Republic of Cyprus [October 23, 2018]
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