entity · site_palaepaphos
Palaepaphos / Kouklia
Also known as: Old Paphos, Palaipafos, Kouklia
Western gateway centre with a megalithic sanctuary, residential and industrial localities, cemeteries, and long Early Iron Age continuity.
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.
1500 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides landscape interpretation
Palaepaphos: Unlocking the Landscape Context of the Sanctuary of the Cypriot Goddess — Maria Iacovou (2019)Synthesizes gateway role and sanctuary landscape.
Locator: Full article - informs · provides project evidence
Palaepaphos Urban Landscape Project: The Project — Palaepaphos Urban Landscape Project, University of CyprusDocuments localities and monumental construction.
Locator: Late Bronze and Early Iron 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 continuity and change.
Locator: Palaepaphos cemeteries
Research description
Palaepaphos developed into a major western centre linking the Dhiarizos valley and metalliferous foothills to the coast. Monumental sanctuary construction and later mortuary evidence indicate institutional continuity and transformation, but later city-kingdom territory is not back-projected.
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?
The megalithic sanctuary is the principal monumental expression of the Late Bronze Age centre.
- Palaepaphos: Unlocking the Landscape Context of the Sanctuary of the Cypriot Goddess
supports assignment · Sanctuary and landscape
Continuity across the thirteenth–eleventh-century transition
Evidence that a settlement, institution, or landscape persisted, rebuilt, or relocated through part of the transition.
Why does this record have this property?
The centre and sanctuary persisted through LC IIIB and Cypro-Geometric phases, with transformed mortuary and political forms.
- Palaepaphos Urban Landscape Project: The Project
supports assignment · Early Iron Age section
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?
Palaepaphos was a regional gateway and administrative centre, but its Late Bronze Age title and exact territory are unknown.
- Palaepaphos: Unlocking the Landscape Context of the Sanctuary of the Cypriot Goddess
supports assignment · Regional polity reconstruction
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides landscape interpretation
Palaepaphos: Unlocking the Landscape Context of the Sanctuary of the Cypriot Goddess — Maria Iacovou (2019)Synthesizes gateway role and sanctuary landscape.
Locator: Full article - informs · provides project evidence
Palaepaphos Urban Landscape Project: The Project — Palaepaphos Urban Landscape Project, University of CyprusDocuments localities and monumental construction.
Locator: Late Bronze and Early Iron 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 continuity and change.
Locator: Palaepaphos cemeteries
Referenced records
- Geography assertion for site_palaepaphos · geography assertion
- Paphos and western Cyprus Late Bronze–Early Iron landscape · entity