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of III (1750-1600). Separated from this level by two layers of earth brought in or infiltrated, the second level containing thirty-five piled skeletons had reached the Late Bronze, i.e. the period between 1600 and 1450. It should be noted that the majority of the bodies of this level had been deposited without any pottery grave goods. Finally, the third and last level, of again separated from the p previous one by a layer of aearth sterile, is to be dated to the middle of the Late Bronze (§ ). A similar arrangement was encountered in tombs 10, 13 and 14 of Ajios Jakovos (1616). Tomb 10 consists of a main chamber of circular plan and of a side chamber of the same plan, accessible by a small door made in the left side of the dromos (1617). The first burials had been been deposited on a raised bench, along the wall of the main chamber. Disturbed at an indeterminate period , only remnants of the grave goods remain, which seems to have been poor (1618 ). The excavators report a vase of the red on black type of the Middle Cypriot, three vases of the black slip II type, probably of the same period, two of the same type assigned to the category III and several bilbils and other vases of the base- ring I type of the early Late Cypriot, twelve vases in all and somewhat bronzes in poor condition, also of the Late Cypriot. On the left side of the entrance to tomb 10, the funerary deposit consisted of two strata, separated by a sterile layer. In the central part, near the entrance, ten bodies had been deposited partly on top of one another. A single vase nggnaccompanied them, a bilbil of the early Late Cypriot. Sealed by a layer of clayey earth brought in by infiltration, this deep part of the tomb had remainede intact. It is evident that most of the bodies had been deposited without pottery. The few vases encountered probably belong to the Middle Cypriot III; they were all found in the raised part of the chamber, which had been used for the first burials, and again in the early Late Cypriot. The bilbil of the Late Cypriot which accompanies the ten skeletons
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain