...built tombs, constructed from carefully cut blocks of stone (ashlar) with a rectangular floor plan and a slightly corbelled roof... Tomb 66 is the only tomb of either tholos or built type ever found intact, and remains one of the wealthiest known from the site...
The tombs were typically used for multiple burials, sometimes for periods of up to 500 years. Number of inhumations, length of use and numbers of grave goods are highly variable. A tomb may house anywhere from one to 62 burials and contain a variety of grave goods. Pottery is the most common type of grave good, with some tombs containing over 500 vessels. Other goods deposited include metal or stone tools and vessels, gold, silver or stone jewellery, faience, glass, ivory and other exotic materials. Priscilla Keswani has shown that there is a high likelihood that complex programmes of mortuary ritual were being carried out and that bodies and grave goods were being moved between tombs (Keswani 2004). The wealthiest tombs have been shown to be those in use for longest, and particularly those in use during Late Cypriot IIC, the period of the greatest prosperity of the town. It is also possible that all the tombs found within the settlement represent those of ‘elites’ and low status individuals were buried elsewhere, probably in the extramural rural cemeteries. Even with fine-scale excavation techniques it is often difficult to attribute groups of grave goods to an individual burial or to divide the tomb into different phases. Partially because of the nature of the bedrock, flooding, the fact that many tombs were looted, and the potential that Bronze Age Cypriots themselves were moving the material around.
