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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 13-07-23
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[01] Geronisos island excavation completed
[01] Geronisos island excavation completed
Monumental ashlar walls, huge pithoi, Hellenistic bowls, jugs,
casseroles, and amphorae fragments, were among the findings from this
year`s excavations on the island of Geronisos, opposite Agios Georgios
tis Pegeias, in the Paphos District.
According to the Department of Antiquities, this year`s excavations, which
lasted five weeks, were carried out by the New York University Geronisos
Island Expedition under the direction of Prof. Joan Breton Connelly.
The team consisted of fourteen senior staff members and graduate and
undergraduate students from New York University. Extensive evidence
for monumental ashlar walls was revealed in a series of gypsum mortar
setting beds for large stone blocks, most likely robbed out during the
Early Byzantine period (6th-7th century A.D.) for construction of the
Christian basilicas across the way at Agios Georgios.
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