Murray, Alexander S.; Smith, Arthur H.; Walters, Henry Beauchamp: Excavations in Cyprus: bequest of Miss E. T. Turner to the British Museum (London, 1900)

have been a difficult and dangerous way for making an entry. The second struck and
followed the dromos, but the tomb was first entered, not by the door, but by a hole which
some ancient explorer had made through the facade and side wall of the tomb. The central
chamber was built of finely-cut and massive stones, and was nearly full of fine earth which
had gradually silted in, through the crevices, and especially through a second hole of entry
which was found in the roof. The central chamber yielded nothing. See the accompanying
plans and sections (Fig. i). Subsequently, however, there were found in the ancient dromos

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two fragments (which fitted together) of a terracotta pithos with an inscription on both
sides in Cypriote characters painted red (Fig. 2). What the purport of these inscriptions
may be has not yet been ascertained.

Near the Tumulus of Hagia Caterina is the so-called chapel of St. Catherine, really
an ancient tomb built of stupendous blocks of masonry, which in their size and jointing-
recall the Pnyx at Athens. The roof is barrel-shaped, covering an oblong hall, which
reminds us of the passage in the tumulus of Alyattes, near Sardes.1 Down into this

1 Perrot and Chipiez, v. p. 272. For other drawings of the tumulus of Hagia Caterina see
journ. of Hellen. Stud., 1883, pis. 33-34.