Guide to tombs

Tomb A1: BM: four items registered

Juglet for perfumed oils or medicines in White Slip II ware, c. 1450 BC–1340 BC (1899,1229.110)

Tomb A2: BM: two items registered

Tomb A3: BM: one item registered
Cyprus Museum: Malmgren no. 48

Tomb A4: BM: two items registered

Tomb (A)5: BM: seven items registered

Tombs A6–7: no items registered/identified

Tomb A8: BM: two items registered

Tomb A9: no items registered/identified

Tomb A10: items registered/identified

Tomb A11: no items registered in the BM
Cyprus Museum: Malmgren no. 120

Tomb A12: BM: two items registered

Tomb A13: no item registered/identified

Tomb A14: BM: three objects registered
Cyprus Museum: Malmgren no. 55

Tomb A15: BM: two items registered

White Painted flask, c. 1850 BC–1650 BC (1899,1229.114)

Tombs A16–18: no items registered/identified

Tomb A19: BM: three items registered
 
Tomb A20: no items registered in the BM
Cyprus Museum: Malmgren no. 79

Tomb A21: BM: one item registered 
Cyprus Museum: Malmgren no. 41.

Tomb A22: no items registered/identified
 
Tomb A23: BM: one item registered

Tomb A24: no items registered/identified

Tomb A25: BM: one item registered

Tomb A26: no items registered/identified

Tomb A27: BM: one item registered

Tomb A28: BM: one item registered 

Red Lustrous ware flask with an incised letter on the shoulder, c. 1450 BC–1200 BC (1899,1229.102)

Tomb A29: BM: three items registered

Tomb A30: no items registered/identified

Tomb A31: BM: one item registered 

Tomb A32/A34: BM: one item registered (?)

Tomb A33: BM: one item registered

Tombs B1–3: no items registered/identified
 
Tomb B4: BM: two items registered

Tomb B5: BM: one item registered

Items from numbered tombs in this Catalogue are numbered A1.1, B5 etc     

Uncertain tombs/surface finds

As already noted, approximately two-thirds of the items from Welch’s excavations cannot be assigned to a specific tomb. This group also includes some objects that may have been from settlement contexts, which fell into the burial chambers from a later stage, or which were picked up on the surface, such as the two moulds for metal implements. Given the difficulty of determining their original context, they are included in one group. Individual records suggest which items are more likely to derive from settlement contexts.

Items from uncertain tombs and surface finds in this Catalogue are numbered U.1–U.57. 

Red Polished vessel in the shape of a stag, c. 1800–1650 BC (1925,11-1.2)

Material from the cemetery at the mouth of the Pouzis river

Only a handful of items from this apparently quite productive cemetery can be now identified in the British Museum collection. However, other items of LBA date in the Dept of Greece and Rome collection acquired around this time, whose provenance is unknown, may well have come from this area. The two identifiable items are included in this Catalogue as M.17 and M.17.

Material from Arpera

A number of vases were given to the Museum by C.D. Cobham around the same time as Crowfoot’s excavations at Hala Sultan Tekke. Their exact provenance is not stated in the Register, but in the letter from Crowfoot to Murray mentioned above the District Commissioner describes very extensive excavations in the Arpera area from which he appears to have acquired some objects. The vases, a large Red Polished jug and a Red Polished pouring vessel in the shape of a deer, date to the EC III or early MC period, and may therefore come from this area, but this must remain a tentative suggestion. These are listed in the Catalogue as M.18 and M.19.