Take me to any museum, and I will spend hour upon hour poring over exhibits. It is like all the history weaves a spell over me, and I lose track of time.
Limestone statue of a standing young male figure wearing Egyptian crown
Kouklia-Marchello
Cypro-Archaic II period (6th c. BC). These characteristic types of kouros found in Pafos, of high artistic merit, are of votive nature and possibly represent princes or members of the royal family.
I love the modern twist of orange bringing the statue to life.
The most important examples of monumental sculpture from Palaipafos were found at Kouklia-Marchellos.
Kouklia Is a beautiful village quite high over looking Aphrodite’s rock. I’ve been to few fab archaeology presentations here & some wonderful classical concerts.
2024 I begin my 3rd Year…
I have absolutely loved and embraced this challenge, I feel incredibly grateful to have discovered 365 when I was learning...
Lived in Cyprus as a kid in the 1960s, we were at Akrotiri and I remember the House of Dionysos, behind the harbour of Paphos being open land, it had only been discovered by a farmer in 1962. Going back in the 80s as an adult, and then again in the 90s, and a few times in recent years, the sheer size of the area and the way in which it's looked after and presented is fabulous, certainly since we used to go there in the mid-late sixties of the mosaics in an open ploughed field
I think they constantly discovering new things. It’s a place stuffed with history as so many different invaders have occupied the place at different times.
Lived in Cyprus as a kid in the 1960s, we were at Akrotiri and I remember the House of Dionysos, behind the harbour of Paphos being open land, it had only been discovered by a farmer in 1962. Going back in the 80s as an adult, and then again in the 90s, and a few times in recent years, the sheer size of the area and the way in which it's looked after and presented is fabulous, certainly since we used to go there in the mid-late sixties of the mosaics in an open ploughed field
on Makarios Ave… there’s been tremendous support from the eu and Greece specialists.
At the back of the harbour many more mosaics have been uncovered, all protected by wooden gazebo’s -