Frangissa, Cyprus-la brujula verde More than 20 statue bases are reported to have been discovered at the site of the Sanctuary of Apollo in central Cyprus, which was discovered in 1885. At that time, several bases of votive statues were unearthed, but they were incorporated into backfill when the site was reclaimed. Matthias Recke of the University of Frankfurt and Philipp Kobusch of the University of Rostock said that the in situ statue bases, which were found under nineteenth-century fill, remain close together in their original position within the sanctuary. The limestone and terracotta feet are still attached to some of the bases. Excavations also revealed that these bases were covered with a level layer around 480 BC Recke, Kobusch and their colleagues will continue to evaluate the sanctuary’s reconstruction. For more information on Roman decorations from Cyprus, visit “And they are closed!“
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