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remains of very young children accompanied by vases of miniature size.
Tomb 2, also from Late Cypriote II period (1450-1350), with remarkably rich offerings contained the skeletons of two male individuals and one female laying on raised benches. It is possibly that they were priests. One of them had two golden pectorals adorned with winged sphinxes guarding the holy tree symbol, laying cross wise on the chest, and a golden signet-ring engraved also with a sphinx.
He has held in his right arm, two silver cups, one adorned with bullsheads inlaid in gold and niello.
The female skeletons laying on the opposite bench was accompanied by two golden engraved fingerrings, two silver signetrings engraved with a formula of good luck in egyptian hieroglyphes, and a miniature statuette of a child also of silver. Moreover the skeletons were surrounded by numerous Mygenaeans vases, notably a beautifully painted crater showing stallions coveting two mares grazing among flowers.
Tomb 5 is particulary instructive for the study of the transition period from Late Bronze to Early Iron. It was used first from Late Cypriote I to III, between 1500-1250 B.C. After having been closed for some time towards the end of the XIII.cen. the tomb was reopened at the beginning of the XII. cen. B.C. by people of a quite different civilisation, related to the Early Iron Age invadors of Enkomi, who used the tomb again for a considerable length of time, probably nearly a century.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain