Background: Unfortunately, the LRA1 workshop at Paphos was found after most of it had been completely destroyed by a hotel development in 1988–89. Dr. Demetrios Michaelides was nearby and luckily stopped the workers before the kiln was entirely lost.
Location: The kiln at Paphos was "built outside the city walls, fairly far from the harbor but very near the coast...right next to the area that was extensively used during the Hellenistic and Roman periods as a cemetery" (Demesticha and Michaelides 2001: 290).
Number of kilns: Only one kiln was excavated, but the excavators proposed that more likely existed and were destroyed by the same development which destroyed most of the single known kiln (Demesticha and Michaelides 2001: 290).
Period of activity: Unknown. Due to the cemetery immediately adjacent to the kiln, it is assumed that the structure was built after the 3rd c. when the cemetery fell out of use.
Description of facilities: The kiln was built from soft bricks, stone, plaster, and amphora fragments against a pre-existing stone wall. The floor of the underlying furnace (?) was a curved depression sunk directly into bedrock, above which were five brick pillars which supported the kiln's firing floor. A tunnel connected this area to a stone "upside down truncated cone, and its bottom opened into the understructure of the kiln" (Demesticha and Michaelides 2001: 290). Because the kiln was built between the coast and the cemetery complex, the potters probably did not collect their clay on site (Fig. 9).
Typology: LRA1, LRA13 (also known as LRA2C), and potentially Oziol’s type 19 lamps (Demesticha and Michaelides 2001: 290). The LRA1s have necks of two different shapes: 1) narrow and slightly conical, and 2) broader, lower, and cylindrical. The excavators identified the LRA1s as Riley’s Type A, but it seems to us that our Type B was also produced here.
Local fabric: The ware is hard, light brown to red in color, with many medium red and black inclusions and small lime inclusions, often densely concentrated close to the surface, sparse dark brown pieces. See Cyprus/Mamonia Complex/calcareous clay/carbonates, quartz, ophiolitic suite.
Distribution: Unknown.
