entity · place_paphos_west
Paphos and western Cyprus Late Bronze–Early Iron landscape
Also known as: Palaepaphos region, western Cyprus
Western regional landscape centred on Palaepaphos, its sanctuary, cemeteries, production localities, coastal gateway, and links toward the Troodos foothills.
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
Palaepaphos: Unlocking the Landscape Context of the Sanctuary of the Cypriot Goddess — Maria Iacovou (2019)Supports the gateway-centre reconstruction and cautions about invisible landscape.
Locator: Landscape and sanctuary synthesis - informs · provides project evidence
Palaepaphos Urban Landscape Project: The Project — Palaepaphos Urban Landscape Project, University of CyprusDocuments localities, sanctuary, and settlement structure.
Locator: Late Bronze and Early Iron landscape sections - informs · documents mortuary evidence
Palaepaphos-Skales: Tombs of the Late Cypriote IIIB and Cypro-Geometric Periods (Excavations of 2008 and 2011) — Vassos Karageorghis, Efstathios Raptou (2016)Supports Early Iron social and mortuary evidence.
Locator: LC IIIB–CG cemeteries
Research description
This record captures a documented regional hierarchy and gateway function while withholding a precise territorial boundary. Later Paphian city-kingdom limits are not projected back into the Late Bronze Age.
Evidence and sources
- informs · contextualizes
Palaepaphos: Unlocking the Landscape Context of the Sanctuary of the Cypriot Goddess — Maria Iacovou (2019)Supports the gateway-centre reconstruction and cautions about invisible landscape.
Locator: Landscape and sanctuary synthesis - informs · provides project evidence
Palaepaphos Urban Landscape Project: The Project — Palaepaphos Urban Landscape Project, University of CyprusDocuments localities, sanctuary, and settlement structure.
Locator: Late Bronze and Early Iron landscape sections - informs · documents mortuary evidence
Palaepaphos-Skales: Tombs of the Late Cypriote IIIB and Cypro-Geometric Periods (Excavations of 2008 and 2011) — Vassos Karageorghis, Efstathios Raptou (2016)Supports Early Iron social and mortuary evidence.
Locator: LC IIIB–CG cemeteries
Referenced records
- Geography assertion for place_paphos_west · geography assertion