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even if they are still imperfectly understood from the archaeological point of view. These are Tombs 6, 13 and 16 of our excavations at Enkomi, plans and sections of which are shown in our preliminary report, along with a selection of various types of objects from the tombs. [handwritten: 36]
I have summarized here the characteristics which distinguish these tombs from those of the preceding period. First of all, the complete absence of Mycenaean pottery, so abundant among the burial offerings of the end of the Bronze Age; the appearance of several new types of pottery and the revival of others which had fallen into disfavor, such as the Bucchero ware; finally, the frequent use of vases of Cypriot steatite (pl. VII B), and of little saucers provided with petals in the same material. Designed for the preparation of cosmetic-matter, these mortars, as well as the numerous ivory comb and disc-like mirrors equally typical of this period, attest to a great concern for care of the body. Lastly, iron is no longer, as at the end of the Bronze Age, used parsimoniously for ornamental objects or for weapons of display. It has come into common usage. The tombs contain several of these large one-edged swords, made without any concern for elegance, as purely utilitarian objects. In certain cases, in spite of the thickness of the blades, the metal has been reduced to mere rust by oxidation; perhaps the iron was not of good quality. Bronze rivets were sometimes used to attach the plating of the hilt. Elsewhere, along with these iron swords, bronze ones were still used.
The funeral practices too point to profound changes. Instead of digging subterranean vaults, they were often content with usurping three of the late Bronze Age. First emptying them of their contents without any concern for piety. Of the newly-dug tombs, the greatest number exhibits a quite regularly rectangular form of excavation, with the inner walls sometimes faced; this walfilled in with the material extracted at the time of excavation after the … continues
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