Carpasia, Harbour [Rizokarpaso]

Karpasia peninsula
Date:
Category:
Institution:
Place of discovery:
Collection: Livius

Karpasia, sphinx Mythology, Sculpture
Date: BCE_0400c-BCE_0300c
Category:
Institution: Nicosia, Cyprus Museum
Place of discovery:
Collection: Livius

Karpasia, Limestone sphinx Portrait, Sculpture
Date: BCE_0400c-BCE_0300c
Category: Cyprus
Institution: Nicosia, Cyprus Museum
Place of discovery:
Collection: Livius

Location:

Cyprus, Rizokárpaso
geo:35.626572,34.367863
Location ± 0-5 m.

Class:

Workshop or industry
visible

Identifiers:

vici:place=32529

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. It is situated opposite the promontory Sarpedon; and the passage from Carpasia across the isthmus to the Carpasian Islands and the southern sea is thirty stadia....¹

References

↑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

Nearby

Agios Philon, Rizokarpaso

Early Christian basilica - the beginning of the Vth century.

Rizokarpaso, CY - CARPASIA

Ancient town in Cyprus.

St. Mavra Chapel in Rizokarpasso - Dipkarpaz (3 km)

13th century church.