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According to local informants, the site of the Tent is named so because Agia (Saint) Eleni, mother of Constantine the Great, put her tent in this area, when she returned to Cyprus in 327 AD from Jerusalem bearing the Cross of Crucifixion, before the construction of the monastery in Stavrovouni, 20 km northeast of the Tent. It is said that she had reached Vasilikos and travelled to the valley to Tent, hence the name “Vasilikos” for the location where she landed and for the river itself.
The Tent area includes a small village with houses gathering around the upper part of a small natural hill. With the exception of the stairs between the structures and the struts, virtually all architectural elements in the Tent are curvilinear, if not circular, and linear interior structures are unknown in the area. The various categories of handmade objects found at all levels of the Pre-ceramic phase in the Tent are, in general, similar to those found in Choirokoitia and other Cypriot Pre-ceramic sites.
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