INTRODUCTION Egkomi-Agios Iakovos is a site with the com- plicated distinction of having seen excavation in piecemeal stages by more than four separate archaeological missions over the course of seven- ty-five years, from the 1896 British Museum excavations and the Swedish Cyprus Expedi- tion’s 1930 season through to the long involve- ment of the French mission and the associated joint Cypriot excavations. The Egkomi Mapping Project (EMP) brings together the published geo- graphical and chronological mortuary data from these excavations and more recent studies, creat- ing for the first time an inclusive graphical overview of known Late Cypriot (LC) tomb and burial distribution over the site as a whole. Much of the source material used in the com- pilation of this project (with the notable excep- tion of the detailed publications of the Cypriot Department of Antiquities’ excavations under Porphyrios Dikaios) was gathered before the advent of acceptable modern archaeological techniques, remains incompletely published, or due to a variety of other factors is of limited con- temporary use. Despite these constraints this data remains an essential foundation on which new interpretations of the LC period can be built, par- ticularly as Egkomi-Agios Iakovos’ current inac- cessibility within the occupied region of the Ammochostos district has meant that pre-1974 excavation data must constitute our understand- ing of the site. It is in this context that the revised tomb loca- tions, colour chronological tomb distribution maps and preliminary conclusions encompassed by this research are presented, as the printed edi- tion of an interactive layered map which will form a part of the British Museum’s Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities’ forthcoming Egkomi Web Project. In light of the aforemen- tioned disparities in the quality and quantity of much of the source material used, an important aspect of the EMP has been the creation of a number of systems which make it possible to evaluate to accuracy of its results, and increase the project’s value as a resource for researchers interested in this perennially intriguing and exceptionally important site. METHODOLOGY AND MAP SOURCES At the heart of this project lies the revision and collection of the tomb placements published by the many excavators of Egkomi. Every mis- sion that worked on the site produced some form of site plan detailing the location of the tombs that were discovered, but these plans vary signi- ficantly in their accuracy and completeness, and the contemporary value of some of this material is in itself restricted. This is especially true of the somewhat arbitrary maps published by the Swedish Cyprus Expedition (hereafter SCE) and the British excavators, which were produced before the contemporaneity of the tombs and overlaying architectural remains was recognised and are thus unable to be understood within the site’s currently known spatial framework. The mostly independent nature of the separate mis- sions has also meant that it has previously been impossible to accurately compare or examine the geographical positioning and associated chrono- logical distribution of most of the site’s excavated tombs as a whole unit. The methodology used to resolve these problems within the EMP has been outlined below, and the issues pertinent to each source have been discussed in detail so as to pro- vide a background to the limitations inherent in this information. The Egkomi Mapping Project Matthew Neale Dalton