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this respect; specimens are given in Figs. 133-135. These date chiefly from the 6th and 5th
centuries B.C. In some tombs sixty or eighty specimens were found. The finest example of these
jugs, though unfortunately much injured, is Fig. 136, from tomb 21. It is decorated with a bull,

Fig. 133.

fish, and star, outlined in black on white, on the red ground.1 Aski of fantastic form are not
uncommon at this period; two were found at Curium, in tombs 56 and 6 (see Figs. 137, 138).
Cypriote geometrical pottery was seldom found in the tombs on sites B and E, and was

Fig. 139.

conspicuously absent from tombs containing Hellenic or Roman objects, except in one or two obvious
cases of re-burial. It was never found with Bronze Age objects, except in the two double tombs, 89 and
98. Thus it will be seen that no chronological data can be ascertained for the local styles from a

1 Cf. Cyprus Mus. Cat. p. 174, and Journ. Hell. Stud. ix. p. 160, where fragments of a similar vase are mentioned, found
near Paphos in 1887, and now in the Ashmolean Museum.