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… a quite different civilisation, related to the early Iron Age invadors of Enkomi, who used the tomb again for a considerable length of time, probably nearly a century ( 72).
The tomb contained the remains of at least 55 burials accompanied by 370 complete vases, some of which made of multicoloured glass or faïence and of bronze and other tomb gifts as well as an unidentified number of broken pottery ( 56 à 64).
The stratigraphical conditions of the different funeral deposits being intact, the tomb is of exceptionnal interest for the study of the period of transition from the Bronze to the Iron Age. The few remaining offerings of the Middle Bronze Age were found mixed with the rich Late Bronze Age deposits. But the latter were separated from the early Iron Age level by an intermediate layer of steril earth mixed with fragments of limestone and chalk which during the period the tomb was closed had fallen from the roof the funeral chamber cut in the soft rock ( 65). At the foot of the walls, this layer being very thin, the deposits of the early Iron Age have been found here in stratigraphical contact with the Bronze Age level beneath. It is thus certain that the people who reopened and reused the tomb at the beginning of the Iron Age, had knowledge of the presence of the valuable funerals gifts accumulated there during the Late Bronze Age, among them several diadems of gold. They nevertheless réfrained from violating these burials. Morover when repeatedly entering the tomb for depositing their own interments, they took precautions not to damage the fragile glass, faïence and terra cotta vases and the other tombgifts of the preceding period. This conduct is alsomove remarkable as
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain