^{page 51 note 1} The work was carried out with the support of the University of St. Andrews and Liverpool Museums, and directed jointly by Messrs. T. B. Mitford, F.S.A., and J. H. Iliffe, the former being mainly responsible for the organization and the latter for the archaeological direction of the enterprise. Support was also received from the University of Sydney (through Mr. J. R. Stewart). Other members of the Expedition were Col. J. S. Last of Episkopi, Surveyor; Mr. A. R. Burn, Lecturer in Ancient History in the University of Glasgow; Mrs. A. R. Burn, sometime Assistant Keeper of Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum; Miss Angelike Paschalidou, Assistant Record Keeper to the Cyprus Museum. The devoted labours of each of these enabled a heavy programme of work to be completed in a month's digging. Valuable assistance was also received from Miss L. V. Hodgson, of the Education Department, Nigeria, whilst spending part of her leave in Cyprus. The drawings of the terra-cottas are by Miss Elaine Tankard of the Liverpool Museums, who has also redrawn the plans for publication, from the field survey of Col. Last.

^{page 51 note 2} Cf. J.H.S. ix (1888), p. 190.Google Scholar

^{page 51 note 3} For still earlier ‘excavations’ of Cesnola and others, cf. J.H.S., loc. cit., p. 151.

^{page 51 note 4} Cf. Blinkenberg, C., ‘Le Temple de Paphos’ (Hist-filol. Meddeleher, Copenhagen, 1924), pp. 31 sqq.Google Scholar; Westholm, , ‘The Paphian Temple of Aphrodite’ (Acta Archaeologica, iv, Copenhagen, 1933), p. 207Google Scholar, and his ‘Temples of Soli’, pp. 158 sqq. These discussions, summed up in Hill, Hist, of Cyprus, i, pp. 67 sqq., especially pp. 73–4, have superseded all previous treatment of the temple. Cf. also Dikaios, P., Guide to the Cyprus Museum (1947), pp. 61–3.Google Scholar

^{page 51 note 5} Cf. the report of Gardner, E. A., Hogarth, D. G., James, M. R., and Smith, R. Elsey in J.H.S. ix (1888), pp. 158–271 sqqGoogle Scholar. While the account of the excavations is little more than a reproduction of the expedition day-book, M. R. James's chapter (pp. 175 sqq.) ‘On the History and Antiquities of Paphos’ is an excellent bibliography of the site down to that date. Hogarth observes, loc. cit. (p. 168), that, after their ‘clearing” of the temple, it remained only to trench in the vicinity of the site to determine whether any outlying wing had yet to be found, or whether any remains of the ancient city existed which would be worth exploring. But he at once informs us that to the west and north he hit upon nothing ‘except the foundations of a Byzantine church’, presumably the Agios Nikolaos of the Land Registry maps (fig. 4E). It is these conclusions of the earlier excavators, together with the general shallowness of the surface soil and the encroachments of the modern village, which have been responsible for the reluctance of sub-sequent investigators to risk their time and money at Kouklia. It was the object of our soundings to test whether the western outskirts of the village were as unpromising as they have long been thought. In particular, it was desirable to know something of the nature of the high ground at and around the ruined church of Agios Nikolaos, mentioned above: here the surface is some 4 m. above the present level of the‘temple’, which it thus commands.

^{page 52 note 1} Site ‘B’, also selected for trial excavation, was not begun this year for lack of time.

^{page 54 note 1} Cf. pp. 60 sqq., ‘Selected List of Finds’.

^{page 56 note 1} JKLM on plan (fig. 3).

^{page 56 note 2} NOPQ on plan (fig. 3).

^{page 57 note 1} Y (fig. 3).

^{page 57 note 2} Swedish Cyprus Expedition, i, pp. 371 sqq. (Nitovikla); Gjerstad, Studies on Prehistoric Cyprus, pp. 37 sqq. (Nicolidhes).

^{page 57 note 3} Cf. fig. 2 (SSE. of site A).

^{page 57 note 4} J.H.S., loc. cit., p. 195.

^{page 57 note 5} Ibid.

^{page 59 note 1} These mosaics will be published at a later date with the other mosaics of Kouklia. Seven such pavements are already known.

^{page 60 note 1} The numbers in brackets, e.g. (KA. 26), are the Excavation Catalogue numbers, and indicate the site, A, C, or X (casual finds brought in) from which each object came.

^{page 60 note 2} Cf. Iraq, ii, pl. xxiii, 2 and 4.

^{page 60 note 3} Hill, History of Cyprus, i, pi. viiia.

^{page 60 note 4} Perrot and Chipiez, Phoenicia and Cyprus, i, p. 132, fig. 73 (in the Louvre).

^{page 60 note 5} Andromache, 595–600.

^{page 63 note 1} Hill, , History of Cyprus, i, pp. 35–6Google Scholar. Cf. Daniel, in A.J.A. xli (1937), pp. 81 ff.Google Scholar: Dikaios, Guide to the Cyprus Museum, p. 131.

^{page 63 note 2} Cf. Ohnefalsch-Richter, Kypros, die Bibel Homer, Taf. cliv, 3.

^{page 63 note 3} Hill, op. cit., i, pp. 73–4.

^{page 66 note 1} Cf. A.J.A. xlv (1941), p. 279Google Scholar, no. 1a, in the table of signs appended to the late J. F. Daniel's masterly study of these inscriptions.

^{page 66 note 2} The exact form of this sign occurs, according to S. Casson, Ancient Cyprus, p. 100, no. 17, on the second of the clay balls from Enkomi. But cf. A.J.A., loc. cit., p. 279, no. 13, where the vertical stroke is carried down through the two horizontals.