Photo: Antiquities Department
Posted on 06/11/2022 5:55:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Swedish archaeologists in cooperation with the antiquities department have excavated two burial tombs at the site of Dromolaxia-Vyzakia that they believe belonged to two rich families judging by the nature of the finds, they said on Friday.
This large Late Bronze Age city, which flourished between 1630 and 1150 BC, is situated along the shores of the Larnaca Salt Lake near the mosque of Hala Sultan Tekke.
Both tombs contained material from the outgoing 15th and the 14th centuries BC, which chronologically corresponds to the Late Cypriot IIA-B period, the Late Helladic IIIA1-2 and the famous Egyptian 18th Dynasty. One of the tombs was partly affected by farming activities. The tombs were fenced off in 2017 for excavation, which is now completed.
They were both family tombs with numerous interred individuals, and had been cut into clay-rich soil. The study of the skeletal remains is not yet finalised. Therefore, the estimation of the number of individuals, their gender and age at death have to await further investigations.
Dominating among tomb gifts was pottery, mainly ceramic vessels of high quality which were produced on Cyprus but also numerous imports.
The most common imports arrived from the Aegean, the Mycenaean and Minoan cultural spheres, the department said. There are also imports from Anatolia, the Levant and Egypt. “From the latter arrived exquisite vessels of alabaster and scarabs,” it added.
“It is worthwhile noticing, that one of the alabaster vessels of Egyptian origin imitates Cypriot pottery, the so-called Base-ring I ware, which became very popular in Egypt during the reign of pharaoh Thutmosis III in the 15th century BC.”
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One of *those* topics.
The other GGG topics added since the previous digest ping, chrono sort:
More imports...wonder if there was a “made in Cyprus” movement....
I wonder if our ‘ancient tombs’ will be dug up by archaeologists a thousand years from now?
Future news headline: The ancient tomb of Elvis has been discovered!
Later the Greek-speaking Cypriots used a syllabary for writing, long after other Greeks were using the Greek alphabet (and they were in contact with those other Greeks). I guess traditions die hard.
Cyprus (Keftiu) spoke Minoan or a related dialect, Eteocyprian; the Mycenaean Greek speakers took over the former Minoan world, trade routes, etc, and on Crete adapted Linear A (still undecipher) into Linear B.
On Cyprus there’s a short bilingual inscription.
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2015/2015.01.24/
https://www.academia.edu/7174257/The_Amathus_Bilingual_Inscription
https://www.jstor.org/stable/42617368
https://omniglot.com/writing/cypriot.htm
http://www.palaeolexicon.com/Cypriot
#7 Future archaeologist asks: Why does this bed vibrate?
It must have been a religious experience....
An ancient rich city of the 14th century BC. in Larnaca comes to light – Excavations in Dromolaxia
June 11, 2022
https://cyprus-digest.com/an-ancient-rich-city-of-the-14th-century-bc-in-larnaca-comes-to-light-excavations-in-dromolaxia/
Swedish Expedition Strikes Gold Within Royal Tombs in Cyprus
Updated 7 July, 2023 - 22:52 Ashley Cowie
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/tombs-cyprus-0018775
https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/field/image/tombs-in-Cyprus.jpg
Detail of a bull diadem unearthed in elite tomb in Cyprus. Source: P. M. Fischer / Public domain
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