Background: The Maroni Valley Archaeological Survey Project (MVASP) discovered a kiln and in situ LRA1s at the site in 1990 (Manning et al. 2000).
Location: When the kiln was discovered, it was on the western side of the site, directly on a coastal scarp against the sea. The site no longer exists today.
Number of kilns: 1
Period of activity: 6–mid 7th c., perhaps with more production occurring in the 7th century.
Description of facilities: Geomagnetic surveys and excavation at Zygi-Petrini revealed at least 7 multi-room buildings and a "standard updraught type" kiln structure (Manning et al. 2000). Built of roughly hewn river stones, boulders, and gypsum rocks, the stone components of the wall are fixed together with mortar and lined with mudbrick. The inner kiln chamber is rectangular and connected to a plaster-lined firing chamber. There are open and covered courtyard areas southwest of the kiln that likely operated as working or storage facilities for the kiln.
Typology: LRA1 Type C ( Pieri 2005a 'sous-modules' )
Local fabric: The excavators distinguished two fabrics in their excavation: 1) "Brown-red with many small dark inclusions, scarce white ones, often with small pieces of clay in the matrix" and 2) "light brown to buff, relatively condensed with various small inclusions (red, white, dark)" (Manning et al. 2000: 251). Later analyses show that the latter is the primary local fabric, ranging from light brown or buff to gray-green, with mostly dark inclusions visible to the naked eye. The fabric is nearly identical to that of Amathus.
