DESCRIPTION:

Several structures were provided with windows, doorways and niches. Features such as raised stone benches were found in the interior. The floors were either finely rendered in plaster (sometimes painted red) or merely beaten earth.

Interior wall faces were usually covered with a layer of whitish plaster, but painted decoration was clearly rare. Features, which probably served as hearths occur in a few buildings, but cooking was generally undertaken outside.

ROOFING

The nature of the roofs of Aceramic Neolithic buildings in Cyprus has been debated at length. At Tenta, it would seem most likely that many of the structures had flat roofs, although the inward curvature of the walls of some buildings may be taken to indicate that some roofs were in the form of a dome. In the case of Structure 22, which is well preserved, the mudbrick wall has a clear, regular inward curvature. The roof of this building may have been domed rather than flat.