entity · site_palaepaphos_skales
Palaepaphos-Skales
Also known as: Skales cemetery
Major cemetery zone with LC IIIB and Cypro-Geometric tombs, pyres, rich grave goods, and the Opheltas obelos.
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.
1125 BCE–750 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides epigraphic context
Cypriot Syllabary — Stephen Colvin (2007)Supports cautious language attribution.
Locator: Possible eleventh-century Greek inscription - informs · provides archaeological observation
Palaepaphos-Skales: Tombs of the Late Cypriote IIIB and Cypro-Geometric Periods (Excavations of 2008 and 2011) — Vassos Karageorghis, Efstathios Raptou (2016)Primary cemetery publication.
Locator: Excavated tombs and specialist studies - 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)Places Skales within island-wide regional variation.
Locator: Mortuary transition synthesis
Research description
Skales provides high-resolution mortuary evidence for changing tomb architecture, cremation and inhumation, elite display, local and external material connections, and early writing. It does not by itself quantify the scale or origin of migrants.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Mortuary transition evidence
Cemetery or burial evidence for changing tomb form, cremation, grave assemblage, or burial location.
Why does this record have this property?
LC IIIB and Cypro-Geometric tombs, pyres, and changing grave forms provide direct evidence.
- Palaepaphos-Skales: Tombs of the Late Cypriote IIIB and Cypro-Geometric Periods (Excavations of 2008 and 2011)
supports assignment · Tomb reports
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Palaepaphos-Skales: Tombs of the Late Cypriote IIIB and Cypro-Geometric Periods (Excavations of 2008 and 2011) — Vassos Karageorghis, Efstathios Raptou (2016)Primary cemetery publication.
Locator: Excavated tombs and specialist studies - informs · provides epigraphic context
Cypriot Syllabary — Stephen Colvin (2007)Supports cautious language attribution.
Locator: Possible eleventh-century Greek inscription - 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)Places Skales within island-wide regional variation.
Locator: Mortuary transition synthesis
Referenced records
- Geography assertion for site_palaepaphos_skales · geography assertion
- Paphos and western Cyprus Late Bronze–Early Iron landscape · entity