Rescue excavationDepartment of Antiquities

Trimithousa: rescue of a Cypro-Classical chamber tomb

Name: Trimithousa: rescue of a Cypro-Classical chamber tomb
Start: 1999
End: 1999

1999 · Trimithousa

The Department of Antiquities excavated a Cypro-Classical rock-cut chamber tomb at Trimithousa in 1999, found during building work, with five burials and 22 pots.

Map of Cyprus

Where the work took place

Ground above 200, 500, 1,000 m

Site

1Trimithousa (approx.)

Modern coastline (OpenStreetMap) and relief (Copernicus DEM).

The project

A Cypro-Classical chamber tomb found during building work at Trimithousa was excavated by the Department of Antiquities in 1999¹. It was a rock-cut rectangular chamber with a niche and a subsidiary chamber on the south side¹. Steel reports three earthen klinai in the main chamber and a fourth in the side chamber, with a fifth burial laid out in the niche¹. Twelve ceramic vessels and a bronze strigil lay on the main-chamber floor, and ten ceramic vessels and a second bronze strigil on the side-chamber floor¹. Among the pottery were two Bichrome Red jugs, one with a bull protome and one with a female figure holding a jug, as well as a lamp and several jugs and bowls in a variety of wares¹. Steel summarizes the tomb in Archaeological Reports 50¹.

Institutions

Department of Antiquities of CyprusSponsor

Seasons

1 season

199916 October 1999
Cypro-Classical rock-cut chamber tomb with four earthen klinai and a niche; 22 vessels and two bronze strigils, including Bichrome Red jugs with a bull protome and a female figure. Large unlooted rock-cut chamber tomb (MP 3397, T. 13/99) found during works in a house courtyard. Main chamber 5.67 x 2 m with four burials (three along the walls, one in a niche); secondary chamber 2.40 x 2 m with one burial in a niche. Two men had bronze strigils; pottery includes undecorated amphorae, pinakia and two oenochoai with plastic spouts (bull's head; kore holding a jug).
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