Bamboula “A Tomb of the Early Classical Period” Benson (photos)

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My sincere gratitude is due to Prof. E. Sjöqvist of Princeton University and Dr. G.R.Edwards of the University Museum, Philadelphia, for reading my manuscript and offering valuable suggestions; also to my wife for suggestions and assistance with the manuscript. Dr. Marion Welker executed Figs.1 and 7-10 with her customary skill. Mr. Christophis Polycarpou of Episkopi made Fig.2 presentable from a field drawing, probably by Daniel. The pots are not entirely accurate in scale, but it seemed better not to try to correct them as this would have involved, especially in the case of the large storage jars, arbitrarily altering their relative positions as noted in the field drawing. The cooperation and skill of Mr. R.Goldberg, photographer of the University Museum, have contributed not a little to the presentation of this material. Other members of the Museum staff, including Mr. E.Parkinson, chemist, and Mr. P.Miller of the Egyptology Department, have kindly lent me assistance; and Dr. J.L.Angel of the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, obligingly discussed with me anthropological aspects of the tomb. Last, but not least, acknowledgment is due to the skilful excavation and clear field notes of J.F.Daniel himself.

1. The chronology of selected tombs is treated in AJA 45 (1941) 271-272. The contents of Tomb 4 are in the University Museum at Philadelphia.

2. The tomb is located in Lot 40 Land Registry Sheet LVIII 5, from which Fig.1 is adapted by kind permission of A.H.S. Megaw, Director of Antiquities, Cyprus.

3. Presumably for this reason Daniel left behind no section of the tomb, which is now virtually filled up with debris.

4. For a recent tabulation of published examples, see O.Tufnell, Lachish III (Tell ed-Duweir) The Iron Age (Oxford 1953) 313. Her term "storage jar" is preferable to "water jar" used by the excavators of Aphendrika: E.Dray and J.du Plat Taylor, "Tombs and Aphendrika" in Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 1937-1939 (Nicosia 1951) - p.105 as Aphendrika - p.105.

5. QDAP II Fig.16.

6. Ibid Pl.XVIII:415.

7-10. E.Gjerstad, Antiquities; Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927-1931 (Stockholm 1934-1948) Vols. I-IV (hereafter referred to as SCE); Pl.LXIX: upper register, right.

8. SCE IV 2, Pl.XLIV:1 ?