page_title: Larnaca District Archaeological Museum
section_title: Room I
hierarchical_section_title: Larnaca District Archaeological Museum / Exhibits / Room I
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Zyprisches Gefäß der Red-polished Ware II-III; zwischen 2200 und 1700 v. Chr.; Antikensammlung Kiel, Inventarnummer L 36. English: Cypriot vessel of the Red Polished Ware II-III, 2200-1700 BC; Antikensammlung Kiel, inventory number L 36.
context_page_description: Larnaca District Museum is a museum in Larnaca, Cyprus that has displays that show the "historical development of the city of Kition and the District of Larnaka in general." It was inaugurated in 1969. and was formerly named Larnaca District Archaeological Museum. It is controlled by the Department of Antiquities.
  The Kition-Bamboula archaeological site at is located around 100 meters north of the museum. Information about the site is posted on the grounds of the museum. The entrance fee at the museum is €1.70 —there is no separate charge for viewing the Bamboula site.
  The Kition-Kathari site is located around 500 meters further north.
context_section_description: In this hall, the items are from the Neolithic-, the Chalcolithic Period, the Early Bronze Age until the end of the Middle Bronze Age.
  Displayed are "bone tools (needles etc.), flint knives and jewellery of picrolite and dentalia"—all from Choirokoitia, except for knives from Kalavasos-Tenta.
  The remains of an inhabitant from the Neolithic settlement at Choirokoitia is displayed like it was found, with the body "buried in a contracted [ foetal] position and [with] a heavy millstone [that] was placed on the chest and head"—which was a common burial practice at the time. The stone over parts of the body might indicate beliefs at the time, which might have included fear of the dead (and theorized capabilities of the dead, in an afterlife).
  Items include stone vessels, stone idols and "ceramics of the Combed Ware technique"; a collection of pottery shards; two deer antlers—providing "evidence for the presence of this animal in Cyprus at the dawn of Cypriot pre-history"; fragments of idols  from Kalavasos-Ayious and -Tenta; from the Chalcolithic Period: "a spouted bowl, vessels with cylindrical neck and a cooking vessel"; "a limestone figurine, roughly shaped in the form of a human"; vessels and tools "made of either andesite or limestone"; "pottery known as Red Polished I, II, III as well as Black Polished vessel Area II" of Kition; vessels from Pyla, Psematismenos and Kalavasos; a ritual vase—"spouted and decorated with moulded small vessels" placed near the rim; "an oinochoe and a flask of Red Polished ware from a tomb at Kalavasos";
  Pottery of ancient Cyprus displayed, include stone vessels from Kalavasos' and Choirokoitia's Neolithic Period.
  Wall mounted text tells about excavations including those at Maroni-Vournes (involving British Museum and University of Cincinnati), Kalavasos-Tenta and Kition.
caption: Cypriot Red Polished Ware II-III, 2200-1700 BC. Kiel, Germany
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