Dhenia: the Department of Antiquities under Dikaios, 1952

In 1952 the Department of Antiquities, with Porphyrios Dikaios in charge, carried out rescue work at the Kafkalla cemetery at Dhenia, which Megaw's annual report describes as much looted but never scientifically examined¹. A complex of intercommunicating tombs was entered and planned, and the lower layers of four chambers were excavated¹.

The report says the tombs had been prepared for Late Bronze Age reuse: earlier burial furniture was broken up and levelled with earth to form a floor for later burials. The lower layers of the four chambers produced large quantities of disturbed and broken, but reasonably complete, Red Polished IV pottery¹. The report also records that a search for intact tombs in a nearby archaic cemetery at Mali was unsuccessful¹.