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Selected case studies and useful reading questions: what was found, how was it studied and what follows from the evidence?
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According to the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, excavations in 1952-1955 at Agios Georgios, Pegeia, uncovered three basilicas and a bath, all of the 6th century. What this tells about a settlement in the time of Justinian I, and what it does not.
According to the tradition reported by the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, the church of Agios Lazaros at Larnaka was built at the beginning of the 10th century with the emperor's funds. What such a date is worth, and what lies beneath the church.
According to the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, the church at Kakopetria was built in the 11th century, and its painting phases run from the 11th century to 1633. How one church accumulates layers, and what the sources used here record of them.
According to the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, the dedicatory inscription of the church at Asinou gives a year, 1105/6, and a donor, the magistros Nikephoros Ischyrios. What such an inscription adds to dating by style, and what it does not say.
The Department of Antiquities, Cyprus page on Hala Sultan Tekke mentions the raids on Cyprus in 649 and 650, but the mosque itself was built only shortly before 1787. It is a late memorial site, not a remnant of the period of the raids.
According to the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, the basilica at Kourion was built at the beginning of the 5th century and in the 6th underwent changes, receiving new mosaics and opus sectile floors. What two phases show when the source gives only their outline.
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