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1 The excavation was a synergasia between the Kythera Island Project and 2nd EPCA (co-directed by C. Broodbank and A. Tsaravopoulos respectively). We thank the Central Archaeological Council and the Ministry of Culture for the permit to conduct this work. Funding was provided by the Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP), the British School at Athens and the Mediterranean Archaeological Trust. The field team consisted of A. Bevan (field director, University College London [UCL]), A. Brysbaert (on-site conservator, University of Glasgow), S. Diamantopoulou (Institute of Education, London), V. Isaakidou (bioarchaeologist, UCL), E. Kappa (University of Ioannina), S. Papachristou (University of Athens) and E. Twigger (UCL), with total station support from J. Conolly (UCL) and O. Pryce (UCL). The pottery was studied by E. Kiriatzi (Fitch Laboratory, BSA) and C. Knappett (University of Cambridge) with the assistance of E. Kappa. D. Romanou (UCL) and M. Nikiforidou (T.E.I. Athens) drew the pottery. We would like to thank INSTAP and T. Brogan for lending the services of the INSTAP (East Crete) conservator, M. Rogenbuche, to whom we are also grateful for mending most of the non-conical cup vessels. The authors are especially grateful to C. Broodbank and A. Tsaravopoulos for guidance and continuous logistical support during the excavation and subsequent study of the Tholos material. The latter took place at the Archaeological Museum of Peiraias and we would like to thank K. Axioti and all the staff of the Museum for facilitating our study. L. Preston provided advice and information on Cretan burial practices and C. Frederick and N. Krahtopoulou on-site geoarchaeological advice. Thanks also go to C. Inepekoglou for donating spraying equipment for the excavation. Finally, we would like to express our particular gratitude to C. Broodbank, without whose input and enabling of every stage of the excavation and post-excavation process this report would not be possible. Special Abbreviation: Kythera = J.N. Coldstream, & G.L. Huxley, Kythera. Excavations and Studies (London, 1972).

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2 S. Benton, 245-6; 'The Ionian Islands', BSA 32 (1931-2), 213-46. 3 See H. Waterhouse & R. Hope Simpson, 148-60; 'Prehistoric Laconia: Part II', BSA 56 (1961), 114-75, for an early survey of the site and its tombs. Kythera for publication of the 1960s excavations by Coldstream and Huxley at Kastri. 4 Y. Sakellarakis, ‘Minoan religious influence in the Aegean: the case of Kythera’, BSA 91 (1996), 81-99.

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* Field number (on-site recording sequence). A concordance of catalogue and field numbers, sorted by field number, is also provided at the end of this report.

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15 For Deposit ! (LM IA), see Kythera, 116, no. 31; for Deposit " (LM IA), Kythera, 122, no. 16; for Deposit µ (LM IB), Kythera, 130-1, no. 28; for Deposit # (LM IB), Kythera, 136, no. 29 Deposit $ (LM IB) – p.144, no. 90. 16 Kythera, 131. 17 Kythera, 285 (LM IA summary) and 294 (LM IB summary).

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52 This material and its implications will be returned to in further study of the surface material of Kastri. 53 Although this fabric is used for braziers and lamps found in tombs at Kastri, these shapes cannot be confirmed at Tholos, and certainly not in this fabric. 54 Additional evidence of possible interspersed tombs and settlement on Kythera will be provided by the publication of the KIP survey data.

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55 especially Tomb E: Kythera, 223. 56 G. Cadogan, ‘Pyrgos, Crete, 1970-7’, Archaeological Reports (1977-78), 70-84. See figs. 5 and 8, and p.73: “the LM I offerings of Pyrgos IV had been placed on the upper floor and eventually tumbled down over the burials below”. 57 Y. and E. Sakellarakis, Archanes: Minoan Crete in a New Light (Athens, 1997), 223-29. Building 4 is within the Phourni cemetery but was not used for burial. In this, and in the fact that it was in large part devoted to craft activities, it differs somewhat from the other contexts discussed here. 58 Note the possible brazier in feature 5 and a possible alabastron in feature 21. 59 This is based on the known heights of chambers in the 1960s tombs (1-1.6m) and the (at least) 20-30cm of bedrock on top of them.

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