page_title: Kition
section_title: The Bamboula site
hierarchical_section_title: Kition / The Kition archaeological sites / The Bamboula site
caption_attribution_description: Sargon II (Gaston Maspero)
context_page_description: Kition, also known by its Latin name Citium, was a city-kingdom on the southern coast of Cyprus. It was established in the 13th century BC by the Greek settlers, after the Trojan war. According to the text on the plaque closest to the excavation pit of the Kathari site.
  Its most famous, and probably only known, resident was Zeno of Citium, born c. 334 BC in Citium and founder of the Stoic school of philosophy which he taught in Athens from about 300 BC.
context_section_description: The site is located around 50 metres north of the Larnaca Museum.
  In 1845 the Sargon Stele was found here, together with a gilded silver plakette now in the Louvre.
  A British Expedition first excavated the site in 1913.
  A French team from the University of Lyon started excavating in 1976. when traces of settlement dating to the tenth century BC were found along ramparts next to the port at Bamboula. The site also consists of a sanctuary of Astarte and a sanctuary of Melkart. The earliest sanctuary was built in the 9th century BC.
  1987 saw the discovery of the Phoenician harbour for warships built in the 5th century BC. In its final stage, it consisted of ship sheds (six of them have been recorded), 6 metres wide and about 38 to 39 meters long, with shipways on which triremes were pulled up to dry under tiled roofs
caption: The Sargon Stele; replica in the Larnaca Museum, original Berlin
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