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Marion, Cypro-syllabic funerary inscriptionMarion, Funerary statue of a womanMarion, Funerary statue of a womanMarion, Funerary statue of a manMarion, Funerary statue of a womanMarion, Bust of a man carrying a lamb(Kriophoros)Marion, Bust of a man carrying a lamb(Kriophoros)Marion, Limestone tomb relief of a woman wearing a mural crownMarion, SphinxArsinoë, Greek inscription about the founding of the basilicaMarion, Statue of a veiled ladyArsinoë, VaseMarion Kouros

Location:

  • Cyprus, Pólis
  • geo:35.037395,32.424809
  • Location ± 25-100 m.

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=33038

Annotations

The Archaic temple of the sanctuary of "the Goddess" of the seventh and sixth centuries; destroyed around 500 BC. "In the temple were unearthed the remains of a colossal archaic terracotta statue, which was originally about 3 m high.

Sources:

  1. William P. Childs: The Iron Age kingdom of Marion. In: Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Band 308, 1997, pp. 37–48.
  2. Nancy Serwint: The Terracotta statue from ancient Marion. In Acta Cypriotica. Band 3, 1992, pp. 382–426.
  3. http://www.princeton.edu/~visres/rp/popPAEPCC.html

Relevant museums

Cyprus Museum in Nicosia

Lefkosia. Archeological museum

Paris, Louvre

Paris, Louvre

The British Museum

The British Museum has one of the world's largest collections of antiquities from the Classical world.


Nearby

Marion, Early Christian Basilica I

Early Christian period basilica

Marion, Sanctuary II

Sanctuary of the fifth and fourth centuries BC.

MARION

MARION Polis Chrysochous


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