Pictorial Style vase decorated with sphinxes and griffins. Mycenaean, 1300-1200 BC. From Tomb 48, Enkomi, Cyprus Lidded jar decorated with sphinxes, goats and floral motifs. From Achna, Cyprus. About 600-500 BC
Posted on 09/05/2008 9:31:10 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
For over a millennium, a fortified settlement with a shrine stood on a plateau near the eastern Larnaca coast ringed with a defensive wall, foreign and Cypriot archaeologists believe. Earlier theories about the significance of the site were confirmed during this year's fieldwork at the Pyla-Koutsopetria locality by the identification of a section of the wall, datable to the Late Bronze Age... The settlement, located on a hill known as Kokkinokremmos/ Vigla – Red Cliff/Lookout Post, is estimated to have been inhabited from the Cypro-Archaic period in the 13th-14th century B.C. to Hellenistic and Roman times. The site is situated inland, roughly opposite the eucalyptus-lined coast leading to the British base of Dhekelia... The presence of numerous figurines discovered in recent survey work suggests a previously unknown shrine on the coastal plateau... Hadjicosti recalled the important archaeological discoveries in the latter village, including that of a built tomb of the classical period with a gold trove in the late 1940s. The finds, including the famous Medusa with sphinxes, are housed in the British Museum, while a reproduction of the grave can be seen in the Cyprus Museum.
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Pictorial Style vase decorated with sphinxes and griffins. Mycenaean, 1300-1200 BC. From Tomb 48, Enkomi, Cyprus Lidded jar decorated with sphinxes, goats and floral motifs. From Achna, Cyprus. About 600-500 BC
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They are probably correct, these guys are experts in their field — I mean, they’re not exactly Cretans!
We think alike.
I remember seeing a gold treasure trove (can’t remember thename they gave it) from Afhanistan in the Museum one time. Lots of gold figurines and such.
The kicker was the funny story that was replayed about how the gold arrived in England.
The story goes like this: An English adventurer with a name like Capt. Smedley Duncan-Phyfe was traveling through a most dangerous part of Afghanistan at night when he came upon a camp of robbers. They had attached and tied up a group of merchants and were torturing them for their gold and jewels.
Capt. Smedley Duncan-Phyfe charged into the camp with his trusty Webley .44 revolver and routed the beggars. In return for saving them, the merchants voluntarily gave all their godl and jewels to the good Capt. Now who was the thief again?
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