The site

Erimi Pitharka is in the modern-day village of Erimi, in the Kouris Valley of Limassol District. The valley is home to a number of other pre and protohistoric settlements and tombs: Episkopi Bamboula to the west is a Late Bronze Age settlement and cemetery; Episkopi Phaneromeni is a small Late Bronze Age settlement; Erimi Kafkalla, immediately to the north is an Early-Middle Bronze Age cemetery with some Late Bronze Age tombs and installations; Erimi Pamboula is a Chalcolithic settlement; and Alassa to the north is a large Late Bronze Age settlement.

Erimi Pitharka is a Late Bronze Age settlement mainly occupied in the LC IIC period, with some LC IIIA presence, as indicated by the pottery.

It is located in the Kouris Valley, with terraces going down to the river (now dry due to the Kouris Dam). It is cut by a highway to the north and surrounded by the village of Erimi to the south and east.

Excavations have taken place in four main areas, and the new excavations continue in Area 1, a high topographical point of the site, just outside the area of a modern cement wall.