Ricerc@Sapienza

The ruins of a rectangular stone construction are visible in the old city of Kyrenia; the tower was part of the walled urban defensive system. The city had been already fortified in Byzantine times but during the Longobard war, before the city seize, Frederick II’s party, under the direction of Captain Philippo Genardo improved the defences. It is in this phase that we hypothesised the construction of the round southwest corner tower of the city walls (1211-1232).

This final report on the 1984–2000 investigations at Alassa begins with the presentation of the rescue excavations of the settlement (Chapter 2) and tombs (Chapter 3) at Pano Mantilaris. This is followed by the account of the elite architecture and associated finds uncovered at Paliotaverna (Chapter 4) and a detailed description and discussion of the remarkable seal impressions found on many of the Alassa pithoi (Chapter 5).

This project, a study of the landscape in the area of Moni, Pyrgos, and Monagroulli (Limassol-Cyprus), began in 2011 with a large team. This paper provides the preliminary results of the project’s first three years of work. In particular, the epigraphic appendix provides the editio princeps of the inscriptions featuring funerary cippoi found in the areas where the surveys took place.