Ramparts Earthquake (?)

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Balandier and Guintrand (2023:53–54) argue that features observed at the foot of the Church of Panaghia Theoskepasti in New Paphos represent quarry scars and structural faces associated with the eastern Hellenistic rampart. On the basis of the regularity of the exposed rock face and comparison with ramparts documented elsewhere in New Paphos, they conclude that the Hellenistic fortification system was badly damaged by an earthquake, which they provisionally identify with the 18-15 BCE Cyprus Quake.

By Jefferson Williams