Excavation Reports 1949–1951

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a race of nakid men and women, a sight which shocked Barnabas. No sooner had the words of remonstration passed his lips but part of the hill in the vicinity caved in killing and maiming many of the contestants. The survivors, we are told, fled for refuge to the Sanctuary of Apollo. A crowd of Jews, headed by the Bar Jesus who had followed them from Paphos, refused to permit the Christians to enter the city, so they shook the dust from under their feet and made their way further east to Amathus. The excavators have opened many tombs in the plain dating from the late Bronze Age to the end of the first century A.D. One of these tombs may still be visited to the Hellenistic cemetery near the early Christian church of St. Hermogenes. Flanked by a monument to mark the entrance, a rock-hewn passageway, lined with masonry at its lower extension, leads down to the [handwritten: and] chamber and chamber of a particularly large tomb constructed probably in the early 3rd century B.C., it was re-opened after 150 years of neglect at the time of Christ, when some of the old burials about the time of Christ, when some of the old burials were brushed aside to make place for the new. From this tomb and others in the cemetery came great quantities of pottery, figurines, bronze vessels, glass, jewelry, consisting mainly of finger and earrings, and diadems composed of gold myrtle leaves. George McFadden directed the excavations in this area.

During the present season, the Curator of the Cyprus Museum, Mr. Porphyrios Dikaios, a Neolithic expert,