Ayia Paraskevi, Nicosia: Department rescue of a looted rock-cut tomb (1965)

In 1965 the Department of Antiquities excavated a rock-cut tomb in the Ayia Paraskevi quarter on the southern edge of Nicosia; the chronicle describes it as already looted¹. It contained two limestone larnakes, plain pottery including bottles, jugs and cups, lamps of varied forms and representations, and glass bottles; the lamps include examples with chariot, trireme, muse and peacock imagery¹. Karageorghis reports that coins indicated use from late Hellenistic II to Roman I¹. The chronicle records the tomb under the registration number CS 1483¹.