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Ancient stone quarry, CypusBronze

Location:

  • Cyprus, Politikó
  • geo:35.027493,33.238045
  • Location ± 25-100 m.

Period or year:

  • -2500? /

Class:

  • Vicus or canabae
  • invisible

Annotations

Modern village Politico stands on the site of the ancient city-state of Tamassos.

See:

  1. 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

Berlin, Neues Museum

Berlin, Neues Museum


Nearby

Politiko - Tamassos

Ancient quarry

Tamassos, Copper Workshop

Ancient copper workshop.

Tamassos, Royal Necropolis

Royal Tombs from the Cypro-Archaic period.


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