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Surroundings:

Strongylos mineIdalion, BowlIdalion, Statue of the god MelqartIdalion, Capital crowning a funerary steleIdalion, Statue of the god MelqartIdalion, Portrait of a female votaryIdalion, Capital crowning a funerary steleIdalion, Statue of the god MelqartIdalion, Portrait of a female votaryIdalion, Dish with oriental influenceIdalion, Bronze shield bossIdalion, Incense burnerIdalion, Figurine of a manIdalion, Model of a templeIdalion, Archaic statuette of the goddess AphroditeIdalion, Figurine of a man with a capIdalion, Three Astartes-AphroditesIdalion, Portrait of a manIdalion, Funerary monument with lionsIdalion, Three Astartes-AphroditesIdalion, Statue of a manIdalion, Remains of a funerary reliefIdalion, Terracotta birdIdalion, Funerary stele of a young mother, holding a fruit in her left hand, with child and baby, crowned with a sphinx between two acroteriaIdalion, Sculpture of of the goddess Aphrodite with birdIdalion, Head of a bearded man with wreath of leavesIdalion, Portrait of AphroditeIdalion, Inscription recording a contract between king Stasikypros and the city of Idalion on one hand and the medical doctor Onasilos and his brothers on the other hand for the free treatment of the wounded during the siege of Idalion by the Persians

Location:

  • Cyprus, Mathiátis
  • geo:34.975525,33.347347
  • Location ± 100-500 m.

Period or year:

  • -5xx /

Class:

  • Workshop or industry
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=33126

Annotations

Mathiatis  copper mine belongs to the Kambia mining area in Troodos Mountians.

Sources:

  1. William O'Brien, Prehistoric Copper Mining in Europe: 5500-500 BC, Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. 61, 63-64
  2. http://www.cyprusgeology.org/english/3_4_mineral.htm
  3. http://www.mathiatis.com/en/what-to-know-ten/mines-ten/mine-stroggylos-ten
  4. http://www.cyprusbeat.com/mathiatis-archaeological-historical-geological-interest/
  5. Kassianidou Vasiliki. «And at Tamassos there are important mines of copper... »(Strabo, Geography, 14.6.5) . In: Cahiers du Centre d'Etudes Chypriotes. Volume 34, 2004. pp. 33-46.

Relevant museums

Cyprus Museum in Nicosia

Lefkosia. Archeological museum

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Antikensammlung und Münzkabinett

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Antikensammlung und Münzkabinett

Berlin, Neues Museum

Berlin, Neues Museum

Copenhagen, National Museum of Denmark

Copenhagen, National Museum of Denmark

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

Mathiatis [Cyprus] (2 km)

Copper mine in Troodos Mountians.

Sia-Sha on Cyprus (4 km)

ancient Copper Mine

Idalion - Idalium (8 km)

Greek city


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