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A Bronze Steelyard with an Acorn-Shaped Counterweight from the Paphos Agora

open access: yesStudies in Ancient Art and Civilization, 2016
Steelyards were commonly used by sellers at agorae and fora during the Roman and Byzantine periods. They are based on the principle of the lever, mentioned by Aristotle and probably well-known even earlier.
Ewdoksia Papuci-Władyka   +1 more
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Wall Paintings in Ancient Cyprus: The Hellenistic and Roman Tombs of Paphos and Its Region

open access: yesÉtudes et Travaux (Institute des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences), 2021
This paper presents the wall paintings decorating a number of Hellenistic and Roman tombs, of various architectural types, in Paphos and the region. The paper gathers together for the first time all the known published and unpublished painted tombs of ...
Vasiliki Lysandrou   +1 more
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Une crise frumentaire à Chypre sous les Flaviens ? Une inscription d’époque romaine découverte à Paphos, colline de Fabrika

open access: yesCahiers du Centre d’Études Chypriotes, 2019
In 2016, two fragments of an epigraphic document were brought to light during the excavation of the southern wing of the Roman building uncovered by the French archaeological expedition at Paphos, to the north of Fabrika Hill.
Claire Balandier
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The characteristic and provenance of carbonate stones from archaeological site of Nea Paphos (Cyprus)

open access: yes, 2023
Wydział Nauk Geograficznych i GeologicznychNea Pafos znajduje się na południowo-zachodnim wybrzeżu Cypru. Miasto spełniało bardzo ważne funkcje strategiczne i administracyjne oraz było swego rodzaju bramą do kontaktów Lewantu ze światem zachodniej części
Dzwoniarek-Konieczna, Michalina
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Geoarchaeological Studies in Paphos – First Results

open access: yesStudies in Ancient Art and Civilization, 2015
The geoarchaeological research conducted consisted of a geomorphological prospecting of the Paphos region and a geophysical examination of the ancient town of Nea Paphos and its agora.
Tomasz Kalicki   +2 more
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To Light Antiquity: Perspectives for Research on Clay Oil Lamps from the Agora in Nea Paphos, Cyprus

open access: yesStudies in Ancient Art and Civilization, 2016
Oil lamps as archaeological finds and in museum collections provide a wealth of information. Various types of studies may be applied to investigate their meaning in ancient times.
Małgorzata Kajzer
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Une nouvelle peinture funéraire de Paphos à décor symbolique

open access: yesStudies in Ancient Art and Civilization, 2013
The city of Nea Paphos is the only ancient city of Cyprus to have preserved much of the painted decoration of its buildings and tombs and the following paper aims to present a fresco that has recently come to light in one of the cemeteries of the city ...
Eustathios Raptou
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Nea Paphos - a Foundation by Nicocles of Paphos?

open access: yes, 2017
Historisches Institut, Alte Geschichte und Rezeptionsgeschichte der ...
Körner, Christian
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The Role of Archival Aerial Photography in Shaping Our Understanding of the Funerary Landscape of Hellenistic and Roman Cyprus

open access: yesOpen Archaeology, 2020
This study deals with the investigation of the Eastern necropolis of Nea Paphos in western Cyprus, employing archival and recent aerial photographs for the identification of surface/near-surface ancient architectural remains.
Lysandrou Vasiliki, Agapiou Athos
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Searching for the Kitchen in the Early Roman Phase of the ‘Hellenistic’ House at Nea Paphos (Cyprus)

open access: yesÉtudes et Travaux (Institute des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences), 2017
This paper presents the first preliminary study of cooking wares from the early Roman phase of destruction of the ‘Hellenistic’ House at the Nea Paphos site of Maloutena.
Monika Więch
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