primary excavation publication · src_karageorghis_raptou_2016_skales
Palaepaphos-Skales: Tombs of the Late Cypriote IIIB and Cypro-Geometric Periods (Excavations of 2008 and 2011)
Vassos Karageorghis, Efstathios Raptou · 2016
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Document and modern access
- Type
- excavation monograph
- Publication
- The Cyprus Institute
Records informed by this source
- date assertion Inscription of Opheltas on the Palaepaphos-Skales obelos — date assertionEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · dates · Skales cemetery chronology
Later proposed range retained separately rather than averaged into an exact date.
- property Mortuary transition evidenceinforms · defines property · LC IIIB–CG tombs and pyres
Provides detailed western evidence.
- entity Paphos and western Cyprus Late Bronze–Early Iron landscapeEvidence confidence: highinforms · documents mortuary evidence · LC IIIB–CG cemeteries
Supports Early Iron social and mortuary evidence.
- date assertion Paphos and western Cyprus Late Bronze–Early Iron landscape — date assertioninforms · documents mortuary evidence · LC IIIB–CG cemeteries
Supports Early Iron social and mortuary evidence.
- entity Palaepaphos / KoukliaEvidence confidence: very highinforms · documents mortuary evidence · Palaepaphos cemeteries
Supports Early Iron continuity and change.
- date assertion Palaepaphos / Kouklia — date assertioninforms · documents mortuary evidence · Palaepaphos cemeteries
Supports Early Iron continuity and change.
- geography assertion Palaepaphos-Skales — geography assertioninforms · locates · Published cemetery plan
Representative point for the archaeological site. It is not a settlement footprint, harbour boundary, cemetery extent, or political territory.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides archaeological context · Skales burial contexts
Provides cemetery chronology.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides archaeological context · Skales burial contexts
Provides cemetery chronology.
- date assertion Inscription of Opheltas on the Palaepaphos-Skales obelos — date assertionEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides archaeological context · Skales burial contexts
Provides cemetery chronology.
- relationship Inscription of Opheltas on the Palaepaphos-Skales obelos — occurred at or affected — Palaepaphos-SkalesEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides archaeological context · Skales burial contexts
Provides cemetery chronology.
- relationship Inscription of Opheltas on the Palaepaphos-Skales obelos — concerns — Opheltas obelos from Palaepaphos-SkalesEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides archaeological context · Skales burial contexts
Provides cemetery chronology.
- event Inscription of Opheltas on the Palaepaphos-Skales obelosEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides archaeological context · Skales burial contexts
Provides cemetery chronology.
- entity Opheltas obelos from Palaepaphos-SkalesEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides archaeological observation · Skales tomb context and epigraphic appendix
Documents object and context.
- date assertion Opheltas obelos from Palaepaphos-Skales — date assertioninforms · provides archaeological observation · Skales tomb context and epigraphic appendix
Documents object and context.
- relationship Palaepaphos-Skales — located within research landscape — Paphos and western Cyprus Late Bronze–Early Iron landscapeEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides archaeological observation · Excavated tombs and specialist studies
Primary cemetery publication.
- date assertion Palaepaphos-Skales — date assertioninforms · provides archaeological observation · Excavated tombs and specialist studies
Primary cemetery publication.
- entity Palaepaphos-SkalesEvidence confidence: very highinforms · provides archaeological observation · Excavated tombs and specialist studies
Primary cemetery publication.
- event Mortuary transition at Palaepaphos-SkalesEvidence confidence: very highinforms · provides primary excavation evidence · LC IIIB and Cypro-Geometric tombs
Documents the mortuary sequence.
- relationship Mortuary transition at Palaepaphos-Skales — occurred at or affected — Palaepaphos-SkalesEvidence confidence: very highinforms · provides primary excavation evidence · LC IIIB and Cypro-Geometric tombs
Documents the mortuary sequence.
- relationship Mortuary transition at Palaepaphos-Skales — occurred at or affected — Paphos and western Cyprus Late Bronze–Early Iron landscapeEvidence confidence: very highinforms · provides primary excavation evidence · LC IIIB and Cypro-Geometric tombs
Documents the mortuary sequence.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: very highinforms · provides primary excavation evidence · LC IIIB and Cypro-Geometric tombs
Documents the mortuary sequence.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: very highinforms · provides primary excavation evidence · LC IIIB and Cypro-Geometric tombs
Documents the mortuary sequence.
- date assertion Mortuary transition at Palaepaphos-Skales — date assertionEvidence confidence: very highinforms · provides primary excavation evidence · LC IIIB and Cypro-Geometric tombs
Documents the mortuary sequence.
- property assignment Palaepaphos-Skales — has evidence classification — Mortuary transition evidenceEvidence confidence: very highinforms · supports assignment · Tomb reports
LC IIIB and Cypro-Geometric tombs, pyres, and changing grave forms provide direct evidence.
- claim The Opheltas obelos from Palaepaphos-Skales is a leading candidate for the earliest direct Greek-language inscription on Cyprus.Evidence confidence: highsupports · provides context · Skales cemetery chronology
Provides the archaeological context.
- claim Cremation, tomb form, grave assemblages, and cemetery locations changed unevenly across Cyprus and cannot be assigned one island-wide ethnic meaning.Evidence confidence: highsupports · supports · Skales tombs and pyres
Provides one detailed regional sequence.