entity · site_alassa_paliotaverna
Alassa-Paliotaverna
Also known as: Paliotaverna
Monumental ashlar complex with large buildings, storage, wine production, seal-impressed pithoi, and evidence of centralized coordination.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
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Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1400 BCE–1100 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Alassa: Excavations at the Late Bronze Age Sites of Pano Mantilaris and Paliotaverna 1984–2000 — Sophocles Hadjisavvas (2017)Primary excavation evidence.
Locator: Paliotaverna buildings and installations - informs · proposes interpretation
The Location of Alashiya: New Evidence from Petrographic Investigation of Alashiyan Tablets from El-Amarna and Ugarit — Yuval Goren, Shlomo Bunimovitz, Israel Finkelstein, Nadav Na’aman (2003)Supports candidate status but not a capital label.
Locator: Alassa tablet-clay candidate - informs · contextualizes
Palaepaphos: Unlocking the Landscape Context of the Sanctuary of the Cypriot Goddess — Maria Iacovou (2019)Provides comparative political landscape framework.
Locator: Regional gateway models
Research description
Paliotaverna was a major inland monumental complex in the Kouris valley. Its scale supports a regional administrative interpretation, and tablet-clay provenance makes the Alassa area an Alashiya candidate, but no inscription identifies it as a capital.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Agricultural storage and redistribution
Large-scale storage or processing evidence indicating coordinated collection, consumption, or redistribution.
Why does this record have this property?
Monumental buildings, pithoi, seal impressions, and wine production indicate coordinated storage and processing.
- Alassa: Excavations at the Late Bronze Age Sites of Pano Mantilaris and Paliotaverna 1984–2000
supports assignment · Paliotaverna buildings
Proposed political centre with unresolved status
Site proposed as a regional or island-level political centre without direct proof of title or territory.
Why does this record have this property?
Scale and tablet-clay provenance support a regional-centre hypothesis, not a direct capital identification.
- The Location of Alashiya: New Evidence from Petrographic Investigation of Alashiyan Tablets from El-Amarna and Ugarit
supports assignment · Alassa candidate discussion
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Alassa: Excavations at the Late Bronze Age Sites of Pano Mantilaris and Paliotaverna 1984–2000 — Sophocles Hadjisavvas (2017)Primary excavation evidence.
Locator: Paliotaverna buildings and installations - informs · proposes interpretation
The Location of Alashiya: New Evidence from Petrographic Investigation of Alashiyan Tablets from El-Amarna and Ugarit — Yuval Goren, Shlomo Bunimovitz, Israel Finkelstein, Nadav Na’aman (2003)Supports candidate status but not a capital label.
Locator: Alassa tablet-clay candidate - informs · contextualizes
Palaepaphos: Unlocking the Landscape Context of the Sanctuary of the Cypriot Goddess — Maria Iacovou (2019)Provides comparative political landscape framework.
Locator: Regional gateway models
Referenced records
- Kouris Valley and Alassa–Kourion corridor · entity
- Geography assertion for site_alassa_paliotaverna · geography assertion