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Site: Paphos, Saranda Kolones Castle

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Site name (primary, secondary):

Paphos, Saranda Kolones Castle

Country/region:

Cyprus/Western South Coast

Alternate names & spellings:

Forty Columns Castle, Saranta Kolones Castle

Coordinates (N,E):

34.757658 , 32.409685

Periods attested by vessels on the LCP:

Late Roman

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A large rectangular fortress built in the late 12th c. CE on the ruins of Byzantine Paphos, near the city's harbor from the Ptolemaic period.

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Saranda Kolones Castle 2373/7

Transport amphora

Paphos, Saranda Kolones Castle

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Late Roman

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4th - 8th centuries CE

Late Roman, Early Byzantine, Byzantine, Late Roman

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Hayes, J. W.. "Hellenistic and Roman Pottery Deposits from the 'Saranda Kolones' Castle Site at Paphos." The Annual of the British School at Athens 98 (2003), 447-516 , Figure 1.

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