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Location:

  • Cyprus, Léfka
  • geo:35.076546,32.84322
  • Exact location

Period or year:

  • -2400 /

Class:

  • Workshop or industry
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=54798

Annotations

the Apliki mine in Skouriotissa mining district was the smallest if compared with Mavrovouni and Skouriotissa.

See:

  1. N. D. Antivachis, The geology of the northern part of the apliki Cyprus-type ore deposit. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece, 49, 2015 4-28. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/bgsg.11047
  2. J. D. Muhly, The Organisation of the Copper Industry in Late Bronze Age Cyprus. In E. Peltenburg (Hrsg.), Early Society in Cyprus. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1989, p. 307.
  3. idem: The Development of Copper Metallurgy in Late Bronze Age Cyprus. In: N. H. Gale (Hrsg.), Bronze Age Trade in the Mediterranean. Jonsered, Paul Åströms Förlag, 1991, p.183
  4. 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. p. 44
  5.  Noël H. Gale, Zofia Stos-Gale, The role of Apliki mine region in the post c.1400 BC copper production and trade networks in Cyprus and in the Wider Mediterranean, in: “Eastern Mediterranean Metallurgyand Metalwork in the SecondMillennium BC”A conference in honour of James D. Muhly, Nicosia, 10th-11thOctober 2009, OXBOW BOOKS 2012

Relevant museums

Cyprus Museum in Nicosia

Lefkosia. Archeological museum


Nearby

Mazokampos [Cyprus] (2 km)

Mazokambos mine in Troodos Mountians.

Mavrovouni (3 km)

Copper mine.Mavrovouni, Lefka (Lefgios).

Mavrovouni (3 km)

The chamber tomb cemetery at Mavrovouni in Laconia near Gythion/Gytheio.


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