2007
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Sabine Fourrier et al., « Un sanctuaire phénicien du royaume d 'Amathonte : Agios Tychonas -Asvestoton », Cahiers du Centre d’Études Chypriotes, ID : 10.3406/cchyp.2007.1506
A sanctuary site, identified during survey work in the Amathous area, proves to be the place where terracottas of Phoenician type were illegally dug in 1982. The coroplastic assemblage collected there is very homogeneous and only finds parallels in other extra-urban sanctuaries of the Amathous kingdom (Limassol -Komissariato and Agia Phyla-Kountouros). The style of the terracottas is very close to Western Phoenician examples and may point to the existence of Phoenician cultic places in the kingdom of Amathous during the late Archaic period.