Glossary Tombs and burial
Cenotaph
A tomb or monument built in memory of someone whose body is not buried in it.
The best-known Cypriot example is Tomb 77 at Salamis, a burnt monument containing unbaked clay portrait statues and no burial. Vassos Karageorghis read it as the memorial of the last royal house of Salamis, at the end of the fourth century BCE, when the Ptolemies were ending the island's kingdoms. Others connect it with a different ruler, following the ancient historian Diodorus. See Cypro-Classical Cyprus.
Related terms
- Royal tombs
The monumental built tombs of the Iron Age kings and elite of Cyprus, best known at Salamis, where horses were killed at the funeral.
- City-kingdom
One of the small independent kingdoms, each ruled from a city, into which Iron Age Cyprus was divided until about 310 BCE.