Kyra: Department tomb rescues in the school yard

The school yard of Kyra, a village already known as a prehistoric site, yielded two tombs, rescued by the Department of Antiquities in 1962 and 1964. The 1962 tomb had been disturbed by clandestine diggers when it was reported. Its contents fell into four groups, Hellenistic I and II and Roman I and II, and included a two-nozzle lamp, an inkpot, a Megarian bowl, glass, lamps and unguentaria, faience beads, gold earrings and a silver coin of Ptolemy Epiphanes, under inventory number 1962/VII-19/2¹. V. Karageorghis's report for 1962 took the discovery as evidence for a Hellenistic and Roman cemetery¹. The 1964 find was a Cypro-Classical II tomb with White Painted VI-VII, Plain White and Stroke-Polished jugs, a jug with irregular red paint, and six silver hair spirals; it is reported in his account of 1964².