Kourion Articles - University Museum Bulletin
The Penn Museum has published a magazine for its members continuously since 1910. Today it is known as Expedition, but from 1930 to 1958 it was a small journal called the University Museum Bulletin. In a number of articles between 1935 and 1953, members of the project reported to Penn Museum members on the progress of excavations. Due to George McFadden’s untimely death, his complete report on the site was not prepared. Here are the first impressions on the great site.
The Cyprus Expedition
By:George H. McFadden
The Museum's Excavations in Cyprus were resumed in the spring of 1934. The site chosen by Mr. B. H. Hill, the field-director, was ancient Curium. Mr. George H. McFadden, a Research Associate of the Museum, presents the following preliminary report of the undertaking, which it is believed will be actively continued in the years ahead. […]
Sanctuary of Apollo at Kourion
By: George H. McFadden
Excavations were resumed in the Sanctuary of Apollo1 (Plan 1) on the 28th of April 1939 and continued until the end of June. During these eight weeks most of the fallen debris from the north end of Street 1 was removed; debris was cleared from the floors of a building at the western limits of […]
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Past Achievements and Future Plans
By: John Franklin Daniel
Now that we are perfecting plans for a number of new excavations, it may be well to look back on one excavation which is already in progress, to see what has been accomplished, and to indicate what remains to be done. We began work at the site of the ancient city of Kourion in Cyprus […]
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The Amusement Area
By: DeCoursey I. Fales
Man has always required entertainment and recreation. As today a man goes to a baseball park or movie-house, so in Greco-Roman times, he went to a stadium, theater, or bath. At Kourion in Cyprus, where the University Museum has been excavating since 1934, there are fine examples of these three types of building. These buildings […]
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The Late Bronze Age Settlement
By: John Franklin Daniel
The Museum’s Expedition to Cyprus under the direction of Dr. B. H. Hill continued this spring the excavation of the city of Kourion which was begun in 1935. John Franklin Daniel conducted the investigation of a Late Bronze Age settlement on the slopes of the Bamboula, the northern part of a low ridge separating the […]
The Achaeans at Kourion
By: John Franklin Daniel
The University Museum has played a distinguished part in the rediscovery of the pre-Hellenic civilization of Greece. The Heroic Age described by Homer was first shown to have a basis in fact by Schliemann’s excavations at Troy in 1871, and somewhat later at Mycenae and Tiryns, and by Evans’ discovery of the palace of King […]
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The Apollo Baths
By: George H. McFadden
Excavations were resumed on the site of the Sanctuary of Apollo during the first week of April of 1949. The area chosen was that east of the lower alley, just beyond the eastern limits of the area excavated during the previous season. On the east side of this alley, and north of a large cave […]
Trial Excavations at Sotira, site Teppés
On Behalf of the University Museum Cyprus Expedition
By: P. Diakaios
The scope of the excavations at Kourion has been broadened to include the investigation of a Neolithic site near Sotira, a village situated about five miles north of the expedition headquarters. The excavations at Sotira are considered part of the work at Kourion, and are sponsored jointly by the University Museum and the Department of […]
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The Late Bronze Age Settlement
By: John Franklin Daniel
Since 1935 the Museum has been conducting under its auspices, partly through the generosity of Mr. George H. McFadden and partly through the income of the Sharpe Fund, a series of excavations on the island of Cyprus. These were at first centered about Lapithos where under the direction of Mr. B. H. Hill a large […]
Excavations at Kourion
By: George H. McFadden and John Franklin Daniels
The purpose of the excavations at Kourion is to trace the history of that ancient city in the different sites it occupied from the earliest times to the break up of Roman Empire. Two of the sites have already been investigated; the Roman on the hill of Kourion, and the late Bronze Age at Bamboula [...]
Excavations at Sotira – 1951
By: Porphyrios Dikaios
In the summer of 1951 Mr. P. Dikaios, Curator of the Cyprus Museum, excavated at Sotira, the settlement of Neolithic times near Curium. This dig was a joint undertaking of the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus and the Curium Expedition of the University Museum. The preliminary trial excavation made by Mr. Dikaios in the summer […]
