Autour de Golgoi : les cités de la Mesaoria aux époques hellénistique et romaine

It seems nearly certain that, at the end of the kingdoms' s period, Golgoi was one of the "small cities" subordinated to a bigger one (Kition or Salamis), not the capital of one autonomous kingdom. The first Ptolemies transformed it in a new polis, like Ledra or Tamassos, and "promoted" the local Aphrodite Golgia who had her main sanctuary to Arsos. Epigraphical and archaeological evidence shows that the chora of the city was, at least between ca. 250 and 150, largely occupied by military settlers and their descendants, forming religious thiasoi devoted to different divinities. However, Golgoi's role declined during the Roman period to the advantage of neighbouring Tremithous.