The Department of Antiquities inward Republic of Cyprus announced that, during 5 weeks inward Apr together with June 2018, a Swedish team, headed past times Professor Peter M. Fischer from the University of Gothenburg, carried out excavations at the Late Cypriot harbour metropolis of Dromolaxia-Vyzakia (Hala Sultan Tekke). The squad consisted of 27 students together with specialists. Amongst the latter were those trained inward osteology, botany, conservation, Aegean together with Near Eastern ceramics, together with geophysical prospecting.
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| Chariot krater from Tomb RR, Dromoloaxia-Vyzakia [Credit: Republic of Cyprus Department of Antiquities] |
The architectural remains dot to numerous man-made structures inward the entire expanse of the survey, demonstrating the vast extent of the city. In 2018, 0.6 hectares of the magnetometer-surveyed expanse were re-investigated amongst georadar inward social club to encounter details of the buried features which facilitates the subsequent excavations.
However, the results of the georadar survey were of express value: the potent radar attenuation at the site, due to clay-rich soil, did non allow electromagnetic waves to penetrate deeper than a few decimeters from surface.
City Quarter 1 together with 4, together with Area A
This year’s squad was divided into 3 groups: 2 larger groups excavated inward the fenced City Quarter 1 (CQ1) together with the lately discovered CQ4 (CQ2 together with 3 are too fenced together with protected for futurity query but were non investigated this year). The tertiary grouping opened 2 trenches only about Area A, only to the W of the mosque of Hala Sultan Tekke, inward social club to verify the results of the magnetic prospecting. The magnetometer map showed numerous pits together with a few rock built structures inward an expanse where tombs, offering pits together with wells were exposed inward the seasons 2014-2017.
City Quarter 1
The results from the excavations inward CQ1, which began inward 2010, verified before observations that the nature of this quarter was mainly industrial but too domestic. CQ1 was used during 4 phases of business dating from Late Cypriot (LC) IIC to LC IIIA, i.e. the 13th together with outset one-half of the twelfth centuries BC. There is pregnant show of urban copper production (cf. seasons 2013-2017): 3 furnaces, tuyères, crucibles together with nearly one-half a ton of slag mixed amongst copper ore were constitute inward the southern business office of CQ1.
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| Mycenaean vessels, Dromoloaxia-Vyzakia [Credit: Republic of Cyprus Department of Antiquities] |
City Quarter 4
This metropolis quarter is betwixt CQ1 together with Area Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 together with presents the largest metropolis quarter therefore far discovered at Hala Sultan Tekke. The magnetometer map shows regularly arranged stone-built compounds of imposing dimensions intersected past times streets. The entire layout resembles that of Enkomi. The fundamental business office of this metropolis quarter, measurement 65 1000 x sixty m, was fenced off inward social club to protect it from continued farming since the nigh recent structures are only xx cm below surface (there are, however, as interesting structures exterior the fence.
The extremely well-built walls of ashlar blocks distinguish this quarter from CQ1, CQ2, together with CQ3, which are of industrial together with domestic character. Here, nosotros constitute a bath coated amongst ashlar blocks (both the walls together with the floor) demonstrating an advanced hydro-technical construction: at that topographic point is a H2O inlet at the base of operations of the southern wall which is built of ashlar blocks.
Opposite is a drain too built of ashlar blocks. The floor, which slopes towards the drain, is partly paved past times ashlar blocks together amongst a thick layer of plaster. Outside the room (to the due south of the inlet) is a H2O channel nigh probable leading upwards to a good surrounded past times walls. The presence of a good could non yet live verified but the magnetometer map suggests a large “pit” (to live excavated inward 2019).
To the N of the bath is a corridor, at to the lowest degree xx 1000 long together with 3 metres wide, which contained numerous pithoi together with smaller vessels. This corridor represents a storage expanse for mainly liquids such as water, vino together with olive oil. The storage corridor could live reached from the N via steps built of ashlar blocks. In front end of the steps was a double gate, which is indicated past times 2 door sockets. Just to the eastward of the gate is a rock installation amongst a thick layer of crushed murex shells (Hexaplex trunculus).
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| Locally produced wares, Dromoloaxia-Vyzakia [Credit: Republic of Cyprus Department of Antiquities] |
Area A
One of numerous magnetic anomalies, which indicated “pits”, was exposed. It was shown to stand upwards for a rich tomb (Tomb RR). The tomb has the shape of a recumbent “8” together with contained xiii skeletons. Finds include enough of local wares together with numerous imports from the Aegean, the Levant together with Egypt. Local wares are represented past times diverse vessels of White Slip II (mature), Base-ring I together with II together with Plain White wheel-made wares.
The Late Helladic together with Minoan imports comprise pirifrom jars, alabaster, a feeding bottle together with juglets. Amongst the nigh spectacular finds from this flavour is a complete, real large, chariot krater depicting 2 chariots drawn past times 2 pairs of horses together with 10 individuals. Egyptian imports include a faience bowl together with an alabaster juglet. One of the woman mortal skeletons was buried amongst 2 pierced ivory discs of which 1 is incised amongst a designing of petals. The ivory disks were business office of her wearing clothing together with were constitute only about her hips. The tomb is dated to LC IIA-C / LH IIIA-B.
Source: Press together with Information Office, Ministry of Interior, Republic of Republic of Cyprus [July 03, 2018]
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