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Alasia. We were able to locate two of the main streets which run parallel to each other in a est-westerly direction right through the old city. Secondary streets runnings north-south cross them in right angle. The town thus seems to have been built (or rebuilt [handwritten: after] the Middle Bronze Age) according to a regular plan.[handwritten: ?]
A row of houses excavated along one of the main streets revealed two main levels, the uppermost belonging to the early Iron Age (XII-XI.ca. B.C.), during which [handwritten: walls] of the preceding level were reused.
Immediately below lay the ruins of Late Bronze Age dwellings Late Cypriote I to III.(ca. 1550-1200 B.C.), in the basement of which, were discovered family burial chambers of sometimes impressive [handwritten: hewn] dimensions, in the chalk bank of the subsoil.
Several of them where found intact. They oldest one (tomb 15 is going back to Late Cypriote I (1550-1450) and contained numеrous complete vases of the usual Cypriote pottery, but no Mycenaean vases at all, which are so frequent among the funeral gifts in the Enkomi tombs after 1450. It is thus confirmed once more, that Cyprus did nod begin to import Mycenaean goods before ca. 1450 B.C.
Tomb 11 assigned to Late Cypriote II (1450-1350) contained more than 200 complete vases of Cypriote and Mycenaean origine, the latter probably all imported judging from the absence of red painted pottery marks on the bottom. Among these Mycenaean vases are several of unusual small side, probably made for funeral purposes. In two niches cut in the wall of the dromos were found the
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