Kornos: Department rescue tombs

In 1964 the Department of Antiquities excavated a large tomb in a newly discovered cemetery in the schoolyard at Kornos. It held about 150 objects dated from Cypro-Archaic II to Cypro-Classical I, among them many Bichrome Red vessels, paste beads, iron tools, a hemispherical bronze bowl and bronze arrowheads¹. A Bichrome V jug (Inv. C 51375) carried a long painted inscription in Cypriot syllabic script; O. Masson's provisional reading gives the genitive name Zo-wo-te-mi-wo-se, a rare name previously attested only in the nominative on an archaic Cypriot scarab of uncertain origin¹. The report gives no tomb number and records the material, registered as CS 1375, in the reserves of the Archaeological Exploration Section¹. In 1969 a Cypro-Classical I tomb, CS 1760, was found in the village, with Plain White VI jugs and coarse red jugs bearing irregular white-painted linear motifs².