It lay in the bay formed by the projection of Cape Gatto from the coast, and, like Citium, looked to the south-east.

Westward and south-westward stretched an extensive plain, fertile and well-watered, shaded by carob and olive-trees,[519] whilst towards the north were the rich copper mines from which the Amathusians derived much of their prosperity.

The site has yielded a considerable amount of Phoenician remains--tombs, sarcophagi, vases, bowls, paterae and statuettes.[520] Many of the tombs resemble those at Idalium; others are stone chambers deeply buried in the earth.

The mimetic art shows Assyrian and Egyptian influence, but is essentially Phoenician, and of great interest.

Further reference will be made to it in the Chapter on the AEsthetic Art of the Phoenicians.
Still further to the west, in the centre of the bay enclosed between the promontories of Zeugari and Boosoura, was the colony of Curium, on a branch of the river Kuras.