 Several of the statues and sculptures from antiquity are disfigured, headless or mutilated, likely by Christian zealots in late antiquity  during the persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire.The public buildings uncovered at the city site of Salamis date to the post-Classical period.The Temple of Zeus Salaminios, whose cult was established, according to tradition, by Teucer himself, must have existed since the foundation of the city; the extant remains date to the late Hellenistic period.