Athienou: rescue excavation of a rock-cut tomb, 2008

Municipal road works at Athienou in 2008 exposed a rock-cut tomb, MLA 1947, Tomb 127, which Efthymia Alphas, Contract Archaeological Officer of the Department of Antiquities, excavated¹. It held 11 artefacts and few skeletal remains, and the annual report dates the assemblage to Cypro-Archaic I, 750 to 600 B.C.¹. The pottery comprised a large White Painted amphora, a Plain White amphora, a Bichrome amphoriskos, a White Painted cup, a White Painted jug with trefoil lip, a Plain White jug with ovoid body and two plain clay lamps of open type¹. The metal finds were a copper buckle and a copper fibula, described as clothing accessories, and part of an iron knife whose surface residue was possibly leather, according to the report¹. The excavation appears in the Department's annual report for 2008, published in 2010¹.