Egyptianizing Faience from the Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates, Kourion, Cyprus

This article publishes an assemblage of forty-two Egyptianizing faience vessels, figurines, and scarabs excavated by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the sanctuary of Apollo Hylates in Kourion, Cyprus, between 1936–1954. Nearly 80% of this material, dating to the first half of the 6th century BCE, were products of Greco-Egyptian workshops rarely encountered on the island. Using archival material held by the Penn Museum, I reconstruct the stratigraphy of an unpublished votive deposit where the bulk of the Egyptianizing faience was excavated.

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