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There were at least 55 burials accompanied by 370 complete vases, some of them made of multicoloured glass and faïence and of bronze and other tomb gifts.
The Late Bronze Age deposits found in several superimposed intact strata, were separated from the Early Iron Age level by an intermediate layer of sterile earth and fragments of chalk fallen from the roof of the funeral chamber during the time the tomb was closed.
At the foot of the walls, where this layer was very thin, the deposits of the Early Iron Age were found in stratigraphical contact with the Bronze Age level beneath. It is thus certain that the people who reopened and reused the tomb at the beginning of the Iron Age, had knowledge of the presence of the valuable funeral gifts accumulated there during the Late Bronze Age, among them several diadems of gold. They nevertheless refrained from violating these burials; they even took precautions when they repeatedly entered the tomb to deposit their own interments, not to damage the fragile glass, faïence and terracotta vases of the preceding period.
This conduct is all the more remarkable as the material civilization of the Early Iron Age as reflected by the tomb gifts is entirely different from that of the Late Bronze Age. Also from the racial point of view, as the study of the skeletons discloses, they must have, at least to a great extent been different from their predecessors.
It seems thus likely that the Early Iron Age invaders, who took over Enkomi by force at the beginning of the XII.cen., after
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