entity · site_myrtou_pigadhes
Myrtou-Pigadhes
Also known as: Myrtou Pigadhes
North-coast Late Bronze Age sanctuary complex with architecture, cult equipment, storage, and regional exchange connections.
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.
1450 BCE–1200 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Myrtou-Pigadhes: A Late Bronze Age Sanctuary in Cyprus — Joan du Plat Taylor (1957)Primary evidence for sanctuary and sequence.
Locator: Excavation monograph - informs · documents dataset limitations
A Gazetteer of Archaeological Settlements on Cyprus — Katherine A. Crawford, Nicholas Vella (2023)Contextualizes research imbalance.
Locator: Northern coverage caveats - informs · contextualizes
Resilient Social Actors in the Transition from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age on Cyprus — Nathan Meyer, A. Bernard Knapp (2021)Provides island-wide comparison.
Locator: Sanctuary and settlement transformation
Research description
Myrtou-Pigadhes is a key sanctuary and community site for northern Cyprus. Its cult interpretation derives from architecture and assemblages rather than a named deity or text, and modern access conditions complicate renewed study.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Sanctuary or cult context
Architecture and assemblages interpreted as sustained ritual or cult activity.
Why does this record have this property?
Architecture and assemblage define a sustained Late Bronze Age sanctuary context.
- Myrtou-Pigadhes: A Late Bronze Age Sanctuary in Cyprus
supports assignment · Excavation report
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Myrtou-Pigadhes: A Late Bronze Age Sanctuary in Cyprus — Joan du Plat Taylor (1957)Primary evidence for sanctuary and sequence.
Locator: Excavation monograph - informs · documents dataset limitations
A Gazetteer of Archaeological Settlements on Cyprus — Katherine A. Crawford, Nicholas Vella (2023)Contextualizes research imbalance.
Locator: Northern coverage caveats - informs · contextualizes
Resilient Social Actors in the Transition from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age on Cyprus — Nathan Meyer, A. Bernard Knapp (2021)Provides island-wide comparison.
Locator: Sanctuary and settlement transformation
Referenced records
- North coast of Cyprus · entity
- Geography assertion for site_myrtou_pigadhes · geography assertion