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

36.Tombs 11, 30, the "Stable" (Tomb 31) and a late burial over Tomb 38; [handwritten: cf.]

37.J. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford 1942) 971, lists only one vase from Kourion. Tomb 31 of the Geometric and Early Archaic necropolis of Kaloriziki, near Kourion, has a Cypro-Classic I-II burial period but yielded no Greek pottery.

38.Cf. P.Dikaios, A Guide to the Cyprus Museum (Nicosia 1953) 39-40, for a summary of historical background.

39.SCE IV 280.

40.One wonders if the gem of No.28 was deliberately removed before burial as being too valuable to commit to the earth. [handwritten: [scribble]] There is no evidence of prying or forcing on the ring.

41.Cf. SCE IV 238. Uncommon, however, is the pit at the center. I do not know any reason for it. A symbolical hearth? A rectangular center pit existed in a plundered tomb at Bamboula (Tomb 9) of Late Cypriote I-II date and a rectangular pit 15 centimeters deep in Bamboula Tomb 32 of late Cypriote III date.

42.The dorsal position of all skeletons is normal. Cf., for example, the contemporary Tomb 26 at Marion; cf. also SCE IV 455.