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were examined, further some 20 sanctuaries or temple-sites, which
amongst other things yielded thousands of sculptures. Besides,
habitation-sites, a couple of fortresses, a royal palace, and a Ro-
man theatre were excavated. To our country these excavations
are particularly valuable, as a very large number of the finds
at the distribution of them fell to Sweden. Most of them are
kept in the Cyprus Collection in Stockholm (see below). Among
the most important results of the expedition we may reckon
the fact that Swedish archaeologists in a number of papers, and
especially in the voluminous publication The Swedish Cyprus
Expedition, have been able to establish a fixed chronology and a
clear division into periods within which it has been possible to
group both the Swedish finds and other collections of Cypriote
ancient relics.22 Hence, Cyprus in future will probably be a fixed
starting-point at the determination of a great many phenomena
in the countries round the Eastern Mediterranean.
FrenarosT While the Stone Age in Crete has long been com-
paratively well-known, this period in Cyprus was completely
unknown when Gjerstad, in 1923, discovered a minor settlement
from the Stone Age at Frenaros. This was characterized by a
complete absence of pottery, and later it appeared that it could
be ranged in a comparatively early part of the Cypriote Stone
Age.
Petra tou Limnit'u ' The same qualities were characteristic of the
22 Summary surveys of importance in this connexion are chiefly Gjer-
stad, Studies on Prehistoric Cyprus, Uppsala 1926; —, Summary of
Swedish Excavations in Cyprus, in Syria 1931; —, Cypriote Pottery
from the Neolithic to the Hellenistic Period, in the Union Académique
Internationale, Classification des céramiques antiques, Paris 1932; —,
Die Entwicklung der kyprischen Skulptur von der archaischen his zur
hellenistischen Zeit, in the Arch. Anz. 1936 p. 562; —, Cyprisk och
etruskisk skulptur, in the Konsthistorisk Tidskrift 1933, p. 51; — The
Colonization of Cyprus in Greek Legend, in Opuscula Arch. Lund
1944, p. 107. E. Sjöqvist, Prohlems of the Late Cypriote Bronze Age,
Stockholm 1940.
23 Gjerstad, Stenaldern pd Cypern, in the Svenska Orientsállskapets Irs-
bok 1924; —, The Stone Age in Cyprus, in The Antiquaries Journal,
Í926.
24 E. Gjerstad, J. Lindros, E. Sjöqvist, A. Westholm, The Swedish Cyprus
Expedition, Finds and Results of the Excavations in Cyprus 1927—
1931, Vols. I—III, Stockholm 1934—37. Vol. IV forthcoming. For
Petra tou limniti see Vol. I, p. 1.