Tombs guide – 11-20
Tomb 11
Contents: one registered
object
Materials/objects: Faience head goblet
Chronological range of objects: LCII
Tomb type and status: Built tomb, disturbed
Additional information: the notebook states
that the tomb was empty apart from the head goblet and filled with
earth. Presumably looted in antiquity. Sherds of Late Helladic
pottery found in dromos.
Tomb 12
Contents: 57 registered
objects
Materials/objects: goldwork and silver
jewellery, faience beads and vessels, ivories, stone tripod,
cylinder seal, pottery (nearly all Late Helladic and mainly
sherds)
Chronological range of objects: LCI-IIC, possibly
into IIIA
Tomb type and status: built tomb,
looted
Additional information: the tomb was
discovered, and subsequently looted, when an ox ploughing had put
its foot through the roof. Described in the notebook as containing
‘an enormous mass of broken pottery’, some of which was allocated
to the CM. CVA CM: LH IIB and/or IIIA1.
Tomb 13
Contents: Late Helladic
sherds and fragment of a presumably Cypro-Archaic limestone figure
mentioned in the notebook but the tomb is not listed as assigned to
either museum so it was perhaps not retained.
Tomb type and status: probably chamber tomb,
presumably disturbed
Tomb 14
Contents: held in the
Cyprus Museum
Materials/objects: goldwork and silver
jewellery, faience cylinder seal and vessel, ivory, terracotta
figure on a horse, whole vessels and sherds
Chronological range of objects: LCIIA or IIB-C,
possibly later
Tomb type and status: chamber tomb,
presumably disturbed
Additional information: tomb described as
‘sunk in the rock like a well’, presumably the dromos. Other
Cypriot (White Slip, Base Ring and Bucchero) and Late Helladic
pottery. SCE IV1C: LH III.
Tomb 15
Contents: nine
registered objects
Materials/objects: gold strips, bronze
vessel, dagger, spear-head and greaves
Chronological range of objects: LCIB-III, likely
use LCIIC-III
Tomb type and status: chamber tomb,
looted
Additional information: tomb described as
‘sunk in the rock like a well’, presumably the dromos. Also
mentioned are at least three bronze bowls, tripod fragments and a
stone vessel.
Tomb 16
Contents: 16 registered,
a total of 15 objects as two fragments are from the same stone
vessel. Two objects from the 1969 sequence are from either tomb 16
or 91.
Materials/objects: goldwork, stone vessels,
ivories and stone sculpture
Chronological range of objects: LCIB-III, re-used
in Cypro-Archaic
Tomb type and status: chamber tomb,
looted
Additional information: it is unclear if all
the objects were found in the dromos but the largest limestone head
certainly was. Additional bronze weapons and vessels and two stone
vessels are mentioned.
Tomb 17
Contents: three registered objects
Materials/objects: ivory mirror handle,
pottery
Chronological range of objects: LCII-III
Tomb type and status: chamber tomb with three
chambers off one dromos, two of which were completely empty,
looted
Additional information: also bronze knives
and ‘stone figures of the Cypriote type’, presumably Cypro-Archaic
sculpture. CVA CM: LH IIIB.
Tomb 18
Contents: Late Helladic
and presumably Cypriot sherds, a gold strip and a silver ring
mentioned in the notebook but the tomb is not listed as assigned to
either museum.
Tomb type and status: probably chamber tomb,
presumably disturbed
Tomb 19
Contents: 99 registered
objects
Materials/objects: goldwork and silver
jewellery, faience head goblet and bead, lapis lazuili cylinder
seal, ivory disc, pottery vessel
Chronological range of objects: LCIA-IIC, possibly
into LCIIIA
Tomb type and status: chamber tomb, seemingly
disturbed despite its wealth as some objects found in dromos
Additional information: silver and gold
jewellery, faience and stone beads, hematite weights, faience
vessel, Red Lustrous Wheelmade ware and other local pottery, Late
Helladic pottery, ivories are also noted. It is very likely that
some of the objects from this tomb are amongst those which cannot
now be assigned to specific tombs. There are two sets of 1897,0401
series registered hematite weights not assigned to specific tombs.
Nine from .1394-1402 and six from .1564-9. Seven of these are
likely to be from Tomb 19 but it is not possible to tell which
ones. One of the ivory pomegranates (1897,0401.1367 or 1563) almost
certainly comes from this tomb as it is mentioned in the notebook,
along with a further two engraved discs, but it is not possible to
establish which.
Tomb 20
Contents: held in the
Cyprus Museum
Materials/objects: goldwork, scarabs,
bronzes, Late Helladic pottery and a figurine
Chronological range of objects: LCIA-II
Tomb type and status: chamber tomb,
presumably disturbed as sherds mentioned
Additional information: CVA CM: LH
IIIA2 and IIIB; SCE IV1C: White Painted VI