Clay pots have existed in Cyprus since neolithic times and some of the ones to be found outside houses and restaurants and offices aren’t all that recent either. The pot J is standing beside is nineteenth century. Yes, they’re valuable - but not that easy to run off with. And happily vandalism doesn’t seem to be much of a thing here.
A few miles east of us in Girne is the shipwreck museum, home to a remarkably preserved shipwreck dating back to the time of Alexander the Great The cargo included over four hundred intact wine amphorae as well as storage jars containing 9000 perfectly preserved almonds in their shells.
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