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The Finds
These are dealt with firstly in detail according to subject and material and secondly in an inventory according to tombs; the tombs are grouped according to their sites, representing roughly a chronological order, viz.:-
(1)Site D. Bronze Age and Mycenean tombs (28-58,86-109) to 700 B.C.
(2)Site A. Early Graeco-Phoenician tombs (1-6) to 600 B.C.
(3)Site B. Graeco-Phoenician and Hellenic tombs (7-14,20-26,71-85) to 400 B.C.
(4)Site C. Hellenistic and Roman periods (15-19 and temple site).
(5)Site E. Roman period (59-70, 110-118).
Owing to reburials and other circumstances, this classification is not a strict one; again, tombs 11,14,72 and 77 on site B belong to the Roman period, and other tombs on sites B and E have been used more than once.
Sculpture and Objects in Marble or Stone
As might be expected from a tomb site, little was found in the way of sculpture, except several small objects of marble. Most of the sculpture is of the nature of terracottas. The temple site (C), however, yielded a head of Aphrodite, an inferior copy of the Cnidian type, and the arm of another statue, both in marble. Among the smaller objects may be mentioned two colour grinders (from tombs 72 and 114), several pestles and mortars, and one or two vases of marble or stone. The colour grinders are small marble objects in the form of a bent thumb on which the nail is indicated; they were probably used, with the small four-eared mortars, for preparing rouge.1
Inscriptions
These, again, are very few in number. Only six inscribed objects were found, among which are two vases (from tombs 36 and 50) with primitive characters, in one case painted, in the other engraved; they are respectively and . Similar characters are often found on the Mycenean vases, and their history and relation to the Cypriote syllabary has been discussed by Mr. Evans.2 They have been found in such large numbers in Crete that Mr. Evans has assumed the existence of a system of writing, more especially at home in that island, but known to the whole Mycenean world. It is certainly worth noting that the vase from tomb 50 (Fig.128) is an exact replica of one found in Crete, and was probably imported thence. As to the connection of these
1 Cf. Cyprus Mus.Cat. p.99, Nos.2471,2472. 2 Cretan Pictographs etc. in Journ.Hell.Stud.xiv,p.270 ff; cf. Mr. Murray's remarks, supra, p.27.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain