Lefkaritis Tomb

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The Lefkaritis Tomb is a hypogeum—a type of tomb—in Larnaca, Cyprus.

It was discovered in 1998 in an "un-looted

city walls of Kition, as opposed to the necropolis
on the outside.)

To create a final report on the archaeological excavations of "two important built tombs, namely the Ikarou Street Tomb and the Lefkaritis Tomb" were the primary reasons for the authoring of The Phoenician Period Necropolis of Kition Volume II.[2] (The author participated in the excavations.)

Excavation

The street address where the tomb was unearthed, is Vasileos Konstantinou 27.[3]

Among the "few objects found", were "Extraordinary gold ornaments", which were moved to Cyprus Museum for conservation.[4]

Name

The tomb was discovered in the vicinity of the residence of Dino Lefkaritis (a known businessman in the petroleum industry), hence the name Lefkaritis Tomb.

References

  1. ^ Hadjisavvas, Sophocles (2013). The Phoenician Period Necropolis of Kition, Volume II. Shelby White and Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications. pp. 1, 2.
  2. ^ Hadjisavvas, Sophocles (2013). The Phoenician Period Necropolis of Kition, Volume II. Shelby White and Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications. p. Preface.
  3. ^ Hadjisavvas, Sophocles (2013). The Phoenician Period Necropolis of Kition, Volume II. Shelby White and Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications. p. 2.
  4. ^ Hadjisavvas, Sophocles (2013). The Phoenician Period Necropolis of Kition, Volume II. Shelby White and Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications. p. 2.

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