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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 reliefs. 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 Chypriote Récent I (1600-1450) 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 c.B.C. ( 27).
Tomb 2 with remarkably rich tomb offerings (gold jewelery, panited mycenaean and alabaster vases) contained the squeletom of two male and one female individuals. It is possible that they were priests. The tomb belongs to the Chypriote Récent II (1450-1350 or Late Cypriote II A period ( 28 à 46).
Tomb 11, a family vault of the same period, contained nearly 200 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 à 52).
Tomb 5 ( 53 à 75) another intact family vault, was first used during the late Middle Bronze Age period (Chypriote Moyen III or Middle Cypriote III), than enlarged and used again during Late Cypriote I to III, between 1500 and 1250 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
Handwritten: (Chypriote Récent I-III)
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