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Salamis, Remains of the Kampanopetra basilica, mosaicSalamis, Remains of the Kampanopetra basilica, water conduitSalamis, Remains of the Kampanopetra basilicaSalamis, Remains of the Kampanopetra basilica, apseSalamis, Remains of the Kampanopetra basilica, mosaicSalamis, Remains of the Kampanopetra basilicaSalamis, Remains of the Kampanopetra basilica, apseSalamis, Remains of the Kampanopetra basilica, mosaicSalamis, Remains of the Kampanopetra basilica, windowsSalamis, Remains of the Kampanopetra basilica, cisternSalamis, Remains of the Kampanopetra basilica, round mosaicSalamis, Remains of the Kampanopetra basilicaSalamis, Remains of the Kampanopetra basilica, columns and windowsSalamis, Remains of the Kampanopetra basilica, cisternSalamis, Remains of the Kampanopetra basilica, round mosaicSalamis, Remains of the Kampanopetra basilicaSalamis, Remains of the Kampanopetra basilica, wallSalamis, Remains of the Kampanopetra basilica, cisternSalamis, Remains of the Kampanopetra basilica, round mosaicSalamis, Remains of the Kampanopetra basilica, columnsSalamis, Remains of the Kampanopetra basilica, columns and windowsSalamis, Remains of the Kampanopetra basilica, cisternSalamis, Remains of the Kampanopetra basilica, round mosaicSalamis, Remains of the Kampanopetra basilicaSalamis, Remains of the Kampanopetra basilica, columns and wallSalamis, Remains of the Kampanopetra basilica, entranceSalamis, Remains of the Kampanopetra basilica, round mosaicSalamis, Remains of the Kampanopetra basilica, windowsSalamis, Remains of the Kampanopetra basilica, columns and wallSalamis, Remains of the Kampanopetra basilica, mosaic

Location:

  • Cyprus, Agios Ioannis
  • geo:35.116669,33.950001
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=21608

Annotations

According to Strabo - Book XIV, Chapter 6 : ...Teucer, the founder of Salamis in Cypros, first landed, having been banished, as they say, by his father Telamon. Then to a city Carpasia, with a harbour.... Then to Arsinoê, a city and harbour....1

Sources:

  1. George R. H. Wright, Ancient Building in Cyprus, Leiden, Brill 1992

References

  1. ↑The Geography of Strabo published in Vol. V of the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1928 - http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/14F*.html


Relevant museums

Cyprus Museum in Nicosia

Lefkosia. Archeological museum

Berlin, Neues Museum

Berlin, Neues Museum

Stockholm, Medelhavsmuseet

Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities

Paris, Louvre

Paris, Louvre


Nearby

St George of the Greeks Church, Famagusta

http://www.whatson-northcyprus.com/interest/famagusta/famagusta/george_greeks.htm

Famagusta, Museum garden (1 km)

Famagusta, Museum garden

Famagusta - Arsinoe (1 km)

Harbor of Arsinoe


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