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| Other Names | TRENCH II (1984); EG0 EAST AND WEST (1985-; H07 Baulk (1990-1991) |
| Description | On the northern edge of a gently sloping plateau that extends northward from the core of the modern village. The southwestern apex of the triangular surface is approximately the police station; the southeastern apex has no such clear marker, because here the plateau connects with the ridge on which is located the sanctuary in A.H9; the transition occurs just to the north of the house of Alexandros Kouparris. The hospital is located just to the west of E.G0 on the very most northern part of the plateau. Today it rises above the area of the trench, but it sits on a slag heap still at least 2.5m thick. According to local memory the cobblestone path that makes up the driveway of the excavation house running parallel to the coast from southwest to northeast was a road that led to the north and eventually to Nicosia, but only a track is marked on the 1923 cadastral map running from the village along the line of the modern road to the present driveway of the excavation house. The cobblestone road is slightly off axis of the driveway and runs more to the northeast gradually disappearing over the edge of the present scarp. It was picked up on the northern edge of Test Trench 23 in 1990. At some time in the recent past the roadway was moved north, to the bottom of the present scarp, which must have been bulldozed out of the former sloping surface, which continues to the north of the modern road to the citrus orchard. Either for or after the 1974 war, foxholes were dug along the top of the scarp, which we have gradually filled up. A larger military installation (AA-gun implacement) is located on the north east corner of the Department's land. Several modern buildings existed on the land of the Department of Antiquities beside the two still standing (Dig House and Sheep Shed). The corner of a rubble wall (with mortar) still stood several courses high at the very edge of Test Trench 23, until we knocked it down in 1990. The concrete floor of the building is still visible on the east edge of the Test Trench. Traces of a building with at least a stone socle are also still visible just to the south of the main trench (g07) and a large modern rubbish heap was next to it on the east. In 1983 we cleared the area around the Dig House with a bulldozer and in 1984 we removed traces of a building and its rubbish heap from the area of the west side of g07. This building extended toward the 1983 Test Trench 2 (N. Serwint), but it is unclear whether the wall traces in the Test Trench were modern or Lusignan. A couple of grey marble column shafts lie behind the kitchen of the house of Savvas Christodoulou just to the west of the Dig House. In 1984 we removed the collapsed kitchen on the south side of the Sheep Shed and dug a ceptic tank under the present south porch. Here a large white marble column base in good condition was recovered. There were no other significant surface finds. An almond orchard seems to have covered much of the area of the trench in recent times (some of it survives to west and east of the Sheep Shed). Traces of tree holes were found in digging g07 and one such hole can still be seen plainly in g07's west scarp. The Dig House and its land were confiscated apparently by Vassos Karageorghis in 1960, because the owner of the house had been carrying on illicit excavation, probably as a result of finds made during excavation for the foundations of the house and its ceptic tank. We found some trace of modern excavation in g07 (East particularly), and it seems likely that the corners of the massive Byzantine structure (tower?) were robbed out in modern times. The area of the trenches in E.G0 is underlain by a medium to small gravel congealed into a conglomerate by lime |
| Whereabouts | South and East of excavation house on property of the Department of Antiquitites. |
| Features | Archaic and classical houses; late Roman/Byzantine building with concrete floors; Byzantine fortifications?; Lusignan house; modern shed(s) and houses |
| Periods | Archaic; Classical; Roman (?); Byzantine; Lusignan |
| Remarks | On the northern edge of a gently sloping plateau that extends northward from the core of the modern village. The southwestern apex of the triangular surface is approximately the police station; the southeastern apex has no such clear marker, because here the plateau connects with the ridge on which is located the sanctuary in A.H9; the transition occurs just to the north of the house of Alexandros Kouparris. The hospital is located just to the west of E.G0 on the very most northern part of the plateau. Today it rises above the area of the trench, but it sits on a slag heap still at least 2.5m thick. According to local memory the cobblestone path that makes up the driveway of the excavation house running parallel to the coast from southwest to northeast was a road that led to the north and eventually to Nicosia, but only a track is marked on the 1923 cadastral map running from the village along the line of the modern road to the present driveway of the excavation house. The cobblestone road is slightly off axis of the driveway and runs more to the northeast gradually disappearing over the edge of the present scarp. It was picked up on the northern edge of Test Trench 23 in 1990. At some time in the recent past the roadway was moved north, to the bottom of the present scarp, which must have been bulldozed out of the former sloping surface, which continues to the north of the modern road to the citrus orchard. Either for or after the 1974 war, foxholes were dug along the top of the scarp, which we have gradually filled up. A larger military installation (AA-gun implacement) is located on the north east corner of the Department's land. Several modern buildings existed on the land of the Department of Antiquities beside the two still standing (Dig House and Sheep Shed). The corner of a rubble wall (with mortar) still stood several courses high at the very edge of Test Trench 23, until we knocked it down in 1990. The concrete floor of the building is still visible on the east edge of the Test Trench. Traces of a building with at least a stone socle are also still visible just to the south of the main trench (g07) and a large modern rubbish heap was next to it on the east. In 1983 we cleared the area around the Dig House with a bulldozer and in 1984 we removed traces of a building and its rubbish heap from the area of the west side of g07. This building extended toward the 1983 Test Trench 2 (N. Serwint), but it is unclear whether the wall traces in the Test Trench were modern or Lusignan. A couple of grey marble column shafts lie behind the kitchen of the house of Savvas Christodoulou just to the west of the Dig House. In 1984 we removed the collapsed kitchen on the south side of the Sheep Shed and dug a ceptic tank under the present south porch. Here a large white marble column base in good condition was recovered. There were no other significant surface finds. An almond orchard seems to have covered much of the area of the trench in recent times (some of it survives to west and east of the Sheep Shed). Traces of tree holes were found in digging g07 and one such hole can still be seen plainly in g07's west scarp. The Dig House and its land were confiscated apparently by Vassos Karageorghis in 1960, because the owner of the house had been carrying on illicit excavation, probably as a result of finds made during excavation for the foundations of the house and its ceptic tank. We found some trace of modern excavation in g07 (East particularly), and it seems likely that the corners of the massive Byzantine structure (tower?) were robbed out in modern times. The area of the trenches in E.G0 is underlain by a medium to small gravel congealed into a conglomerate by lime Spurza notebook inadequate, Serwint took over in 1984. |
| Date Entered | 1996-07-29 |
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Joanna Smith
Vocabulary: Excavations at Polis |
Suggested Citation
Joanna Smith. (2017) "E.G0:g07 from Europe/Cyprus/Polis Chrysochous". In Excavations at Polis. Joanna Smith (Ed). Released: 2017-01-30. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/21590ad8-b36a-47b5-ab02-da6ef007ae93> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k22239164
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