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terial of skeletons brought home by the expedition. As regards
their contents the tombs at Ajios Jakovos show a more locai
character. But at Milia and Enkomi a very high percentage of
imported goods was found. Things from Syria and Palestine
predominated in the former place, objects influenced by Myce-
naean culture in the latter. Both places yielded rich gold finds
and an exceptionally fine collection of vases with figure paintings
from the period 1550—1250 B. C. — At Ajios Jakovos, besides
the tombs, also two temple sites of great interest were excavated.
The older of these,38 dating from the i4th century B. C., con-
sisted of rather a small enclosed area in which amongst others
some splendid gold finds were brought to light. The later
temple,'10 from the period shortly before 1100 B. C., consisted
of a fairly large rectangular building of a very solid character.
From a stratigraphical point of view this later construction is of
greater value.
Kastros40 in Lapithos. Through the excavation of the necropolis
at Kastros in Lapithos important results were obtained as regards
the earliest Iron Age in Cyprus. The tombs at Kastros were of a
type well-known from Mycenaean Greece, although they are
formed somewhat more modestly than the huge rock-tombs found
e. g. at Dendra, Berbati, and Asine. In fact the Lapithos tombs
contain relics of the first generation of Greek colonists (see above),
who had not yet become acclimatized to Cypriote conditions.
Through comparative studies of the rich contents of the tombs
it has been possible to undertake a detailed classification of the
stock of objects of the Cypro-Geometric Period (1050—700
B. C.), chiefly pottery, jewelry, and weapons. For the pottery
this has become of particularly great importance.
Amathus.41 During the period just mentioned, which is charac-
terized by Greek colonization from the north and west on one
hand and the Phoenician penetration from the south-east on the
other, conditions on the north and the south coast of Cyprus are
38 Swed. Cyp. Exp. I, p. 356.
39 Swed. Cyp. Exp. I, p. 361.
40 Swed. Cyp. Exp. I, p. 172, cf. Gjerstad, The Initial Date of the
Cypriote lron Age, in Opuscula Arch. Lund 1944, p. 73, and A. Furu-
mark, The Mycenaean III C Pottery and its Relation to Cypriote
Fabrics, ib.
41 Swed. Cyp. Exp. II, p. 1.