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Kourion Excavations Nov.- Dec., 1935
The tombs
Ten tombs were excavated this season, in the Mersinoudh[handwritten: eia] region, lots nos. 83 and 86. They bear the numbers 30 to 39, continuing the series begun in our first season, and ex including the seventeen tombs dug by Mr. Dikaios in Kaloriziki rield (lot no 65). The nature of the terrain and the bed rock is the same as that of Kaloriziki rield.
Tomb no. 30
Dromos: l. 5.00; w. 1.50; d. 2.10; top 0.65 below present surface of the land. Five broad steps at the outer end of the dromos, and a sloping floor from them to the door. The original shape of the door is not known. It was closed with unhewn stones.
Chamber: 2.50 x 4.00; original height, as with all of our tombs, unknown.
Burials: 2
Skeletons: 6 (5 in second period)
Contents:
Lamps: Cypriote, with pinched, unbridged nozzle: 5
Pottery:
Amphorae: ...................... 6 Jugs, trefoil mouth ............ 8 Bowls, shallow ................. 4 Bowl, deep ..................... 1 Jug, miniature, plain mouth .... 1
Total ____ 25 objects
This tomb appears to be of early archaic date. Concentric circles are the nearly unique decoration of the painted pottery.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain