Amathus: Department rescue excavation in the east necropolis, 2008

In 2008 the Department of Antiquities excavated about 150 tombs at Gerokampos and Kompinarka, along the eastern necropolis of Amathus, in connection with the construction of a tourist village; most of the tombs had been looted or partly looted¹. The report singles out Tomb 862, which held a clay thymiaterion, an anthropomorphic spouted jug described as a feeding bottle, and terracotta figurines of a bull or wild goat and a duck, the duck dated to the end of Cypro-Geometric III¹. Tomb 871, similar in architectural type, yielded clay masks of a woman, a man, a wolf (identified with a query as Anubis) and a bull, and a female figurine identified as Astarte carrying a solar disk at waist height¹. From Tomb 889 came a Bichrome IV amphoriskos, T. 889/6¹. The finds are listed under the District Museum, Lemesos (the Limassol District Museum), with inventory numbers LM 2283 for Tomb 862 and LM 2284 for Tomb 871¹.