Miscellaneous

remains of a small temple were unearthed in a ravine running northwards from the Acropolis, including a rubbish-heap full of terracotta statuettes. An inscription which was also found suggests that this temple may have been dedicated to Demeter and Core.

The tomb area is very extensive. Beginning with the rock-cut tombs, many hundreds of which are seen in the south wall of the Acropolis, long ago explored and emptied, tombs of all periods are found over the low-lying ground extending about half a mile south of the Acropolis, and in less numbers on the hill slopes along the bridle-road to Paphos. An entirely new necropolis was also brought to light on the Limassol road, east of the village of Episkopi, the remains discovered in which were mainly of the Mycenean period.

The excavations took place on two sites (A and B) on the level ground south of the Acropolis; one in the narrow valley to the north (C); one near the Limassol road, half a mile east of Episkopi (D); and along the side of the hill above the Paphos bridle-road between the Acropolis and Episkopi (E). The site marked D was the one that yielded Mycenean remains, and the best Greek tombs were found on site B; those on site E were nearly all of Roman date, and those on sites A and C contained little but common Cypriote pottery.1

The Tombs

The most common type of tomb much resembles that of Amathus, viz., an approximately square cave about nine feet each way, with a vertical shaft of eight to twenty feet, or a staircase when the tomb was on the side of a hill, and with a more or less rude doorway. This description, however, only holds good of the local Cypriote or Roman tombs. Those containing Greek objects, and some of the Roman tombs, were of a different character, whilst those of the Mycenean necropolis were again of a distinct type. Although none were equal in size to the large tombs at Amathus, yet some of the Roman tombs were extremely large and elaborate (e.g. Nos.60,76,110,113,114). The tombs containing Greek objects (10,26,73,83) were merely cut in the earth, and consisted of ramifying passages.

The Mycenean tombs were of two types, and answer to those of Hagia Paraskevi near Nicosia and other places, as described by Duemmler. The commoner variety consists of an oven-shaped chamber a few feet below the surface, generally with a stone in front of it; the depth varies from two to ten feet, and the tomb is generally very small and irregular in shape. The other form is a cylindrical shaft sunk for a considerable depth into the earth, like a well; one, No.104, went

1 For a record of previous excavations on this site, see Myers and Richter, Cyprus Mus.Cat. p.6 and references there given. 2 Athenische Mitteilungen, xi(1886),p.215(with plate).