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PERGAMON (Ancient city) CYPRUS
On the N coast. The ruins of a small town identified by Hogarth with
Pergamon extend around the Church of Panaghia Pergaminiotissa, due NE of Akanthou
village, some 500 m from the sea. A low, rocky hill to the N may have been the
acropolis.
Nothing is known of the founding or history of this small town, which
seems to have flourished in Graeco-Roman and in Early Byzantine times. The town
site is now a field of ruins partly under cultivation and partly overgrown with
scrub. The acropolis has been quarried but on its summit a single pillar of rock
is still standing while on its gentle slope two depressions have been cut, connected
with each other by a flight of four steps.
The site is unexcavated.
K. Nicolaou, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains 272 image(s), bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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