LIMENIA
(Limnitis) Cyprus.
On the NW
coast. The remains of a town to be identified with this
site cover a small coastal plain which lies some distance
W of Vouni Palace. The town is mentioned by Strabo
who, however, places it inland. It is also mentioned as
the town of embarkation of St. Mark when he left the
island. It is also recorded in the
Acta Auxibii, where it is
given both as Limne and Limnites, thus indicating that
this town possessed a harbor. It was in this small town
that Auxibios landed on his arrival in Cyprus. Here he
was ordained bishop of Soloi by St. Mark, when they
met ca. A.D. 52.
A number of antiquities of various kinds turn up
occasionally dating mainly from the Graeco-Roman period, while very close to the shore a sanctuary was
excavated in 1889. It yielded various sculptures in
bronze, limestone, and terracotta dating from the archaic
to the Hellenistic period.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
H. A. Tubbs, “Excavations at Limniti,”
JHS 11 (1890) 82-99
MI; Alfred Westholm,
The Temples
of Soloi (1936), in particular pp. 17-19; Athanasios
Papageorghiou,
Ὁ Ἅγιος Αὐξίβιος (1969) 3-28
M;
RE, S.V. Limenia
K. NICOLAOU
