Ayia Paraskevi, Nicosia: Hadjicosti's excavations

In 1988–89 Maria Hadjicosti supervised Department of Antiquities excavations of fifteen tombs found during construction work in three plots in the western part of the Ayia Paraskevi cemetery¹. By the time the Department was notified, most were extensively looted and partly damaged by bulldozers; Hadjicosti reported that the disturbance prevented recovery of stratigraphic information¹. Tombs 6 to 10 lay in plots 708–709, Tombs 11 to 14 in plot 1216 and Tombs 15 to 20 in plot 713; the finds were mainly Red Polished pottery, with imported Mycenaean and eastern pottery, spindle whorls, beads, bronze tools and weapons, lamps and coins¹. In Tombs 11 and 12, excavated in January 1989, fragments of two White Painted vessels carried white and blue faience beads inlaid among painted lines; Hadjicosti tentatively assigned them to White Painted III–V String-hole Style of MC II–MC III¹. She reported use of the cemetery from the Early Bronze Age into the Late Bronze Age¹, and published a preliminary note in 1992¹.