Site details

Meniko-Litharkes

PK	C1813
TITLE	Meniko–Litharkes
WGS84	35.104548° N, 33.154276° E
Accuracy	50 m.

LAT/LON	35.104548, 33.154276
LON/LAT	33.154276, 35.104548

DMS

35° 6' 16.3728" N

33° 9' 15.3936" E

W3W	suppertime, forum, inks
UTM	36 S, 514060.75, 3884648.5
EGSA87	1335337, 3922922

Elevation m	263
Elevation feet	862.9
Region	Cyprus

GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery

TYPE

1. Pottery. van Wijngaarden [2002], 324 'Catalogue I: Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery' includes Tamassos Litharkes

PERIOD (High Chronology)

NOTES

1. van Wijngaarden on p. 324 has the place name 'Tamassos Litharkes'. I suspect he has confused it with the sanctuary site at Meniko-Litharkes, about 11 km. distant to the NW.

2. Additional reading:

Lenia Chamberlain's Religious Sanctuaries in Ancient Cyprus during the Iron Age, Thesis submitted for Master of Arts Degree, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada. 1986. It is online here.
J. Debergh's 'Review of Karageorghis (V.). Two Cypriote Sanctuaries of the End of the Cypro-Archaic Period' in the Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, (57), fasc. 1, pp. 152-154, 1979. which is online here.
Nicholas Vella's discussion of Phoenician and Punic religious sites in the Mediterranean along with the maps of Meniko-Litharkes: Ritual, Landscape, and Territory; Phoenician and Punic Non-Funerary Religious Sites in the Mediterranean: An Analysis of the Archaeological Evidence., University of Bristol, October 1998. Volume I, the text, is here and Volume II, 'Analysis of the Evidence and Illustrations' is here.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. van Wijngaarden [2002]: van Wijngaarden, Gert Jan. Use and Appreciation of Mycenaean Pottery in the Levant, Cyprus and Italy (ca. 1600 - 1200 BC). Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research and Amsterdam University Press. 2002., 'Catalogue I: Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery', pg. 324. Tamassos Litharkes has been changed here to Meniko-Litharkes
Online here.