entity · place_larnaca_bay_lba
Larnaca Bay Late Bronze Age landscape
Also known as: Larnaca coast, Hala Sultan Tekke–Kition–Pyla corridor
Coastal and lagoonal landscape linking Hala Sultan Tekke, Kition, Pyla-Kokkinokremos, anchorages, cemeteries, and agricultural hinterlands.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1600 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · contextualizes
Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus: A Late Bronze Age Trade Metropolis — Peter M. Fischer (2019)Supports lagoonal access and urban trade context.
Locator: Hala Sultan Tekke harbour-city setting and geophysics - informs · contextualizes
C-PEPL: Excavations at Pyla-Kokkinokremos on Cyprus — C-PEPL Project, Honor Frost Foundation (2022)Supports the eastern part of the corridor with explicit uncertainty.
Locator: Pyla topography and presumed harbour area - informs · contextualizes
Kition in the Tenth to Fourth Centuries B.C. — Marguerite Yon, William A. P. Childs (1997)Supports the long-term Kition node.
Locator: Kition urban and maritime role
Research description
The landscape frames multiple nearby but historically distinct settlements. The shoreline and lagoon configuration changed through time, and it is not represented as one polity or a precise shipping lane.
Evidence and sources
- informs · contextualizes
Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus: A Late Bronze Age Trade Metropolis — Peter M. Fischer (2019)Supports lagoonal access and urban trade context.
Locator: Hala Sultan Tekke harbour-city setting and geophysics - informs · contextualizes
C-PEPL: Excavations at Pyla-Kokkinokremos on Cyprus — C-PEPL Project, Honor Frost Foundation (2022)Supports the eastern part of the corridor with explicit uncertainty.
Locator: Pyla topography and presumed harbour area - informs · contextualizes
Kition in the Tenth to Fourth Centuries B.C. — Marguerite Yon, William A. P. Childs (1997)Supports the long-term Kition node.
Locator: Kition urban and maritime role
Referenced records
- Geography assertion for place_larnaca_bay_lba · geography assertion