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Necropolis of Karmi: |
| Kyrenia - North Cyprus |
The necropolis of the village of Karmi is thought to date from the
Middle Bronze Age (c 1900-1625 BC).
Here a number of rich chamber tombs have been excavated. On the wall of
an access passage of a tomb the crude relief of a human figure has
survived. This is the earliest relief of a human figure discovered on
the island so far.
In one of the tombs a Minoan 'Kamares' cup and blue faience beads from
Egypt which suggest very early trading relations with Crete and Egypt
were discovered. It is called 'the tomb of the seafarer' because it was
believed 'that the man probably walked down to the sea at Lapithos and
took service with one of the vessels trading between the Syrian ports
and the Aegean and that these objects are momentous of his travels'. |
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