In several places near the city remains of numerous rock-cut tombs exist, and it would appear from the prevalence of the local Geometric among the fragments of pottery picked up near them during the old excavation, that they belong in great measure to the end of the First and the beginning of the Second City. These tombs had all been robbed, and therefore no bones were found; if they had been undisturbed, it is now safe to say that at least all those with Geometric vases would have proved to be the tombs of adults, for a series of burials of children of this period has now been found, which shews a curious difference between the methods of disposing of the adult and of the infant dead.

On the surface of the rock, upon which the foundations of the houses of the lowest stratum rest, there were found a number of shallow basin-like depressions, in which large pithoi were lying. Probably owing to the hardness of the rock these holes were not more than at most a foot deep, and the pithoi are consequently only partially sunk in them.