entity · site_politiko_phorades
Politiko-Phorades
Also known as: Phorades
Inland primary copper-smelting installation close to ore sources, with furnaces, slag, tuyères, and production debris.
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.
1650 BCE–1450 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Copper Smelting in Late Bronze Age Cyprus: The Excavations at Politiko Phorades — A. Bernard Knapp, Vasiliki Kassianidou, Michael Donnelly (2001)Primary evidence for smelting.
Locator: Excavation and metallurgical analyses - informs · contextualizes
The Production and Trade of Cypriot Copper in the Late Bronze Age: An Analysis of the Evidence — Vasiliki Kassianidou (2013)Places Phorades within multi-stage production.
Locator: Production-chain synthesis - informs · contrasts production stage
One City to Rule Them All? The Production of Copper in Enkomi, Cyprus: The Evidence from the Metallurgical Ceramic Assemblage — Demetrios Ioannides, Vasiliki Kassianidou, George Papasavvas (2024)Separates smelting from Enkomi processes.
Locator: Urban secondary metallurgy comparison
Research description
Politiko-Phorades documents a primary smelting stage distinct from later urban refining, alloying, casting, recycling, ingot transport, and maritime trade. Its short early Late Cypriot sequence is not a model for all periods.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Copper-production node
Direct evidence for one or more stages of copper production.
Why does this record have this property?
Furnaces, slag, and technical ceramics directly document primary smelting.
- Copper Smelting in Late Bronze Age Cyprus: The Excavations at Politiko Phorades
supports assignment · Excavation and analyses
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Copper Smelting in Late Bronze Age Cyprus: The Excavations at Politiko Phorades — A. Bernard Knapp, Vasiliki Kassianidou, Michael Donnelly (2001)Primary evidence for smelting.
Locator: Excavation and metallurgical analyses - informs · contextualizes
The Production and Trade of Cypriot Copper in the Late Bronze Age: An Analysis of the Evidence — Vasiliki Kassianidou (2013)Places Phorades within multi-stage production.
Locator: Production-chain synthesis - informs · contrasts production stage
One City to Rule Them All? The Production of Copper in Enkomi, Cyprus: The Evidence from the Metallurgical Ceramic Assemblage — Demetrios Ioannides, Vasiliki Kassianidou, George Papasavvas (2024)Separates smelting from Enkomi processes.
Locator: Urban secondary metallurgy comparison
Referenced records
- Geography assertion for site_politiko_phorades · geography assertion
- Troodos copper ore and slag landscapes · entity