Golgoi (Cyprus) 5 Athienou-Ag. Fotios - Γολγοί
Γολγοί - Golgoi, settlement NE of Athienou-Ag. Fotios in Larnaca, Cyprus, Archaic to Roman.
Works: 4
Latitude: 35.073100
Longitude: 33.547800
Confidence: High
Place ID: 351335UGol
Time period: ACHR
Region: Cyprus
Country: Cyprus
Department: Larnaca
Mod: Athienou-Ag. Fotios
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Search for inscriptions mentioning Golgoi (Γολγ...) in the PHI Epigraphy database.
The traditional founder of the town was Golgos from Sikyon in the Peloponnese. This connection is further illustrated by an archaic limestone block found here, now in the Metropolitan Museum, New York. Carved in relief on this block is a Chimaera, the symbol of Sikyon which appears on its coins. Golgoi must have succeeded the nearby Late Bronze Age settlement at Bamboulari tis Koukouninas, due N of Athienou. Nothing is known of the history of Golgoi although it is mentioned by several ancient authors. Inscriptions attest an Aphrodite Golgia whose worship was, according to Pausanias, earlier than the cult of Aphrodite at Paphos. And although we know nothing about the existence of a kingdom of this name some coins have been attributed to it. On the evidence of recent excavations near the E gate the city seems to have flourished to the end of the 4th c. B.C. but another sector of the town must have been inhabited down to Early Christian times.
Excavations on the site were started for the first time in 1969 and were confined to the E sector by the E Gate, where a number of private houses and workshops dating mainly from the 4th c. B.C., came to light; the lowest strata, however, produced sherds of the archaic and Early Classical periods. Part of the city wall is preserved to a height of 2.50 m; its lower course consists of rubble with mudbricks above. The E Gate with steps leading up into the town has also been cleared.
From a tomb comes a late archaic stone sarcophagus with low relief decoration, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. One of the long sides shows a hunting scene; the other, a banquet scene of four couches on which recline one older and three younger men.
One of the short sides shows Perseus carrying off the head of Medusa followed by his dog; the other, a fourhorse chariot with a beardless driver conveying an elderly man, who probably represents the occupant of the sarcophagus. The cover is in the form of a gable with four crouching lions at the ends. (K. NICOLAOU)
Wikidata ID: Q3561710
Trismegistos Geo: 37215
Manto: 10082250
Info: Princeton Encyclopedia
(Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, from Perseus Project)
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