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On the opposite face is engraved a sailing boat of the type peculiar to the navy of the invading Sea Peoples the Medinet Habou relief. It confirms the accuracy of the Egyptian XIIth c. representations which has sometimes been questioned. Chapter III.- During the 1946-47 and 1949 seasons, several intact tombs have been found and are described here. Tomb 15 of the Cypriote Recent I (1600-1550) or Late Cypriote I contained numerous complet vases of cypriote pottery, but no mycenaean vases, thus confirming that Cyprus did not import Mycenaean goods before the middle of the XVth o.B.C. ( 27).
Tomb 3 with remarkably rich tomb offerings (gold jewelery, painted mycenaean and alabaster vases) contained the skeleton of two male and one female individuals. It is possible that they were priests. The tomb belongs to the Cypriote Recent II (1450-1350 or Late Cypriote II A period ( 28 & 46).
Tomb 11, a family vault of the same period, contained nearly 500 complete vases, some bronze and gold objects and a great number of broken pottery. In two niches in the wall of the dromos were found the remains of very young children accompanied by vases of miniature size ( 47 & 52).
Tomb 5 ( 53 & 75) another intact family vault, was first used during the late Middle Bronze Age period (Cypriote Moyen III or Middle Cypriote III), then enlarged and used again during Late Cypriote I to III, [handwritten: (Enkomi Tomb 7-?)] between 1500 and 1350 B.C. After having been closed for some time towards the end of the XIIIth c., the tomb was reopened at the beginning of the XIIth c. B.C. by people of … continues
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