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quite different. In order to bring about a co-ordination of these
different regions a necropolis of the ancient town of Amathus on
the south coast from the Cypro-Geometric and the Cypro-Archaic
Periods was investigated. Thanks to the rich contents of the
tombs the comparative study could be carried through to the
end. The tombs at Amathus also proved to be of a very interest-
ing form connected with continental forms in Palestine and Syria,
consisting of covered rectangular shafts cut into the rock and
provided with a small sham entrance. At Amathus also a couple
of larger, built tomb constructions were examined, which gave the
impulse to the solution of the great problem of the origin and
development of these tombs.42 The built tombs, which are found
in various places in South-East Cyprus, probably did not come
into use until the Late Bronze Age under influences from Syria.
Later the original types developed locally during the whole of
the Early Iron Age.
Trachonas.43 An exceedingly fine instance of such a built monu-
mental tomb was examined at Trachonas in the Carpass. It was
provided with a long, finely built, stepped entrance and a minor
vaulted chamber over the entrance to which some relief sculptures
were found.
Stylli,44 In connexion with the Swedish Crown Prince’s visit to
Cyprus in November 1930, a minor necropolis at Stylli in the
eastern part of the plain of Messaorea was excavated under the
leadership of the Crown Prince. Expectations that some of the
richly decorated vases in several colours characteristic of the
Cypro-Archaic epoch might be found here, were not disappointed.
Through the excavation at Stylli these splendid vases could be
dated and ranged in the chronological system set up by the
Swedes, while at the same time valuable closed tomb groups of
pottery from this period were obtained from the eastern part of
Cyprus.
Marion.4B It has long been known that the ancient town of Marion
42 Westholm, Built Tombs in Cyprus, in the Opuscula Arch. Lund 1939,
p. 29.
43 Swed. Cyp. Exp. I, p. 461.
44 Swed. Cyp. Exp. II, p. 142; Sjöqvist, Some Cypriote Iron Age Tombs,
in the Corolla Archaeologica, Lund 1932, p. 189.
45 Swed. Cyp. Exp. II, p. 181.
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