Pendayia: Department rescue of tombs (Mandres Tomb 4 and Koutsoullos)

In 1963 the Department of Antiquities documented Tomb 4 at Mandres, Pendayia. The tomb had been looted, but much of its material was recovered: seven White Slip I flat-based bowls decorated in Bichrome technique, Base Ring I jugs and bowls, and two White Painted VI jugs¹. V. Karageorghis dated it to the end of Late Cypriot IB, later than Mandres Tombs 1–3 of 1960¹. In 1964 four tombs of a Cypro-Archaic I-II cemetery were excavated at Koutsoullos, east of ancient Soloi, Pendayia². Their pottery included torpedo-shaped jars, pointed-base amphorae, jugs, small jugs and saucer-shaped lamps, and the notice gives the group inventory number 1964/IV-30/1 without individual tomb numbers².