Ktima: Department of Antiquities rescue work, 1961–1969

In 1961 the Department of Antiquities excavated a rock-cut tomb in the Canning Street area of Ktima, which the report dates to Cypro-Archaic I (700 to 600 B.C.); it yielded White Painted IV, Bichrome IV and Black-on-Red II (IV) pottery¹. In 1968 a large rock-cut tomb in the Police Station courtyard, with two communicating chambers with arcosolia, a stuccoed facade and a monumental stepped dromos, had already been pillaged but yielded glass vessels and carved bone box plates; the pottery, mostly unguentaria, suggests an early Roman date². A second tomb, excavated in the last week of December, produced Hellenistic pottery and a mould-made terracotta of a woman holding a baby². Two large, half-pillaged Hellenistic and Roman tombs reported in 1969 produced ordinary pottery, bone and glass rods and gold myrtle leaves³. Selected finds from the 1968 and 1969 tombs are in the Musée de Paphos^2,3.