Tombs guide – 61-70
Tomb 61
Contents: 33 registered
objects
Materials/objects: goldwork, Egyptian faience
vessel
Chronological range of objects: LCIB-III, no
evidence for LCI use
Tomb type and status: chamber tomb,
intact(?), roof collapsed
Additional information: Bucchero ware, stone
vessels, mortars and pestles, strainer jug, ivory fragments, bronze
vessels, mirrors, jewellery and weapons, faience fragments and
beads
Tomb 62
Contents: six registered
objects
Materials/objects: goldwork, cornelian bead
Chronological range of objects: LCIB-II
Tomb type and status: chamber tomb, presumably
disturbed
Additional information: no other objects
mentioned in notebook
Tomb 63
Contents: no objects
registered and not in list of assigned tombs
Materials/objects: goldwork, silver, faience
cylinders, Cypriot pottery
Chronological range of objects: LCIB-II
Tomb type and status: chamber tomb, status
uncertain
Additional information: Base Ring I, Base
Ring II, White Slip, White Painted VI(?) teapot
Tomb 64
Contents: three registered
objects
Materials/objects: goldwork, Cypriot pottery and
painted lentoid flask of uncertain production
Chronological range of objects: LCIB-II
Tomb type and status: pit tomb(?), status
unknown
Additional information: described as a ‘small
open grave’. Further goldwork, faience, ivory fragments, Late
Helladic and Cypriot pottery, including Red Lustrous Wheelmade ware
and White Slip ware.
Tomb 65
Contents: four
registered objects
Materials/objects: goldwork, stone beads, Late
Helladic vessel
Chronological range of objects: LCIB-II
Tomb type and status: chamber tomb,
presumably disturbed
Additional information: no other objects
mentioned in notebook
Tomb 66
Contents: 140 registered
objects
Materials/objects: goldwork, silver vessel,
amber beads, bronze vessels, weapons, wall-nails and lamp, glass
vessels, faience beads, vessels, cylinder and pestle, stone
vessels, Late Helladic, Egyptian and Cypriot pottery and Levantine
glazed pottery
Chronological range of objects: LCIA-III
Tomb type and status: built tomb,
intact
Additional information: this is the only
built tomb found intact at Enkomi. No mention is made of skeletal
material. The five bronze wall-nails were found driven into the
wall to support objects, including a ceramic lamp on one side of
the doorway (not retained) and the silver bowl. On the other side
of the doorway the copper lamp was inserted into the wall. There is
a low stone platform along two of the walls. Further objects not
registered include a few items of gold and silver jewellery,
fragments of faience, an additional fragmentary silver bowl, stone
disc and vessel, Late Helladic and Cypriot pottery including at
least one further White Slip bowl.
Tomb 67
Contents: 86 registered
objects
Materials/objects: goldwork, silver and
bronze rings, amber, faience and cornelian beads, cylinder seal,
hematite weights, alabaster vessel, Late Helladic and Cypriot
pottery and figurines
Chronological range of objects: LCIA-IIC
Tomb type and status: chamber tomb, door
unsealed but status unknown
Additional information: fragments of silver,
ivories, bronze knife and fragments, Late Helladic and Cypriot
pottery
Tomb 68
Contents: held in the
Cyprus Museum
Materials/objects: gold bead, faience
fragments, clay disc, Late Helladic and Cypriot pottery
Chronological range of objects: LCI-IIC, possibly
into IIIA
Tomb type and status: chamber tomb,
intact
Additional information: a sketch in the
margin of the notebook shows the door sealing stone in place and an
unusual v-shaped tomb. There is one skeleton laid out along one
side of the length of the tomb, another at one end of the ‘v’, the
finds were piled in the centre. CVA CM: LH IIIA2, IIIB,
Pastoral Style. SCE IV1C: Base Ring I, White Slip II.
Tomb 69
Contents: 45 registered
objects. The tripodic mortar is uncertain but has been added as
probably from this tomb as the notebook specifically states that
one was retained and this is the only one not to have a specific
tomb assigned.
Materials/objects: goldwork, bronze ring,
faience vessels, stone tripodic mortar, Late Helladic and Cypriot
pottery and a figurine
Chronological range of objects: LCIA-IIC
Tomb type and status: chamber tomb,
presumably disturbed as door sealing missing
Additional information: two human skulls are
noted. Fragmentary silver bracelets, cylinder seal, ‘several’
tripodic stone mortars, another figurine, Late Helladic and Cypriot
pottery.
Tomb 70
Contents: 10 registered
objects
Materials/objects: goldwork, fragmentary
hematite weight, Late Helladic and Cypriot pottery
Chronological range of objects: LCII-III
Tomb type and status: chamber tomb, two
chambers off a single dromos, one had been disturbed after being
encroached upon by a well, the other looted through the
entrance
Additional information: gold ear-ring, none
of the pottery apart from the krater is mentioned in the
notebook