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Amathus
The excavation begins 28 March in the archaic necropolis at the 48 mile from Nicosia between the road Nicosia - Limassol and the sea. The place is called Topoteria by the local population Λούρες τοῖς Ἀνέμους. This district has been chosen with a view to the Richardska o Christian excavations appear to have been confined to the small potamos which flows 50 m east of the 48_de_ mile. This according to their maps. The local population has a differing opinion. Quite inup to the road at the said potamos lies a [illegible] tumulus (tomb 1), which has partly been cut through by the water. This appeals to the archaeologists' imagination so that it is immediately made the object of an investigation. The old in the village of Ajios Tychon know how to tell of this tumulus that it contains a huge hall, where those as children could go in. When the great road was then built brötos stenarna över kammarens östra … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain