nine square plaques of gold-plated silver; seven have embossed decoration depicting a winged, nude woman with both hands bent to the breast, two plaques are decorated with an embossed lotus flower, Cypro-Archaic period (750-475 BC), Gialia

12.8.21 Gialia.

It was in this landscape, when I was about 10, where I first realised, because of the location’s serenity and the richness of its soil, how the Turkish Cypriots must also miss their land as much as we do.