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to build the northern facade so as to avoid the dromos which was naturally a weak spot. Moreover the street which runs along the north facade passed over the tomb thus sealing it together. The pit dug by the looters hit the tombs and thus destroyed the stratification in it and over it, but it is clear that the road passed the dromos and tomb chamber.
Another tomb-chamber also visited by looters was noticed under the original floor of room XIII but has not been examined. A few vases collected in it belong to the XIII period.
It thus appears that we have in the particular site examined by us the following earlier remains: tombs of the Middle Cypriot, architectural remains of XIII, tombs of XIII, the nature of which has yet to be identified. But what is remarkable is that we found no burials of the period of the compound, i.e. LCIII, except for one of the tombs in the eastern part, dug in Floor III (ib. XXIV b) (1) and a pot burial of an infant
(1) This grave contained an adult with an infant by its feet, and the only finds were a few paste beads found on the infant. Schaeffer already observed such LCIII graves at Enkomi, cf. Stratigraphie 393. He also reports (Ibid) the re-use by LCIII people of earlier chamber tombs which had been emptied of their contents.
Handwritten: handwritten marginal annotations in pencil, several lines in English and French, partly illegible, placed beside "passed over the tomb", "sealing it together", "architectural remains", "burials of the period", and "Hospital ... objects"
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain