At Dreamer’s Bay on the Akrotiri Peninsula of Cyprus lie remains of what has been interpreted as a, perhaps the main, port for Roman and early Byzantine Kourion. New research reveals a significantly different picture. This was not a nucleated port town as sometimes assumed, but a concentration of maritime facilities with a variety of functions, including an artificially enhanced (but still mediocre) harbour, and shoreline installations partly facilitating Kourion’s commerce in commodities like wine and oil. It was also partly an industrial landscape focused on stone quarries above the bay and, perhaps equally important, a proposed watering and victualling stop for long-haul shipping between the Aegean, Egypt and the Levant. Dreamer’s Bay was hardly a distinct ‘site’ or ‘place’, but rather a commercial/industrial zone forming part of an integrated landscape of settlement and activity spanning the entire peninsula, which itself constituted a major maritime crossroads in the eastern Mediterranean.

在塞浦路斯阿克罗蒂里半岛的梦想家湾，有被解释为罗马和早期拜占庭库里翁的主要港口的遗迹。新的研究揭示了一个截然不同的画面。这不是有时假设的有核的港口城镇，而是具有各种功能的海事设施的集中地，包括人为增强（但仍然平庸）的港口和海岸线设施，部分促进了库里安在葡萄酒和石油等商品的贸易。它也部分是一个以海湾上方采石场为重点的工业景观，也许同样重要的是，它是爱琴海、埃及和黎凡特之间长途运输的一个提议的浇水和食物停靠站。梦想家湾几乎不是一个独特的“地点”或“地方”，