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APHRODISION (Ancient city) CYPRUS
Aphrodisium (Aphrodision, Strab. p. 682; Ptol. v. 14; Aphrodisias,
Steph. B. s. v.: Eth. Aphrodisieus), a city of Cyprus, situated at the narrowest
part of the island, only 70 stadia from Salamis. (D'Anville, in Mem. de Litt.
vol. xxxii. p. 541.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
On the N coast 38 km E of Kerynia. The ruins of a small town identified
with Aphrodision lie by the shore at the locality Liastrika, due N of Akanthou
village. The ruins cover the fields inland as well as a headland which separates
two bays. On the W side of the headland is a perfectly shaped horseshoe bay, which
may have served as a harbor.
Nothing is known of the founding of the town or of its history but
it is mentioned by Strabo (14.682) and by Ptolemy (5.14.4). The reading Uppridissa
equated with Aphrodision on the prism of Esarhaddon (673-672 B.C.) is not to be
trusted. The worship of Hera in the 2d c. B.C. is attested by a recently discovered
inscription. Aphrodision seems to have flourished from Hellenistic to Early Byzantine
times, when it was gradually abandoned after the first Arab raids of A.D. 647.
The town site is now a field of ruins under cultivation and it is so far 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 bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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