Some sixteen clay coffins or larnakes of the well-known Late Minoan type with gabled lids were recovered from nine tombs (IV, VI, VII in the first group, all the tombs IX–XIV of the second, and XVI of the third). They were made of coarse gritty pithos fabric, with the surface orange, paler orange or buff, or greenish, due to wet-smoothing or the application of a thin slip. The chests were between 0·75 and 1·20 long, standing to a height of about 0·50–75 including the legs but without the lids. One larnax (larnax II from tomb VI) had never apparently had any legs. One very small larnax (larnax II from tomb XII), only 0·67 long, was evidently for a child (Fig. 24aa). The sides normally had panels, inlet or suggested by incised lines, no doubt imitating panels of the wooden originals from which the larnakes were clearly copied. There were normally four vertical handles on the chest, two each side, and corresponding handles on the lid. But in some cases (e.g. larnax IV from tomb VI and that from tomb VII) the handles were replaced by perforations for ropes through the corners of the chest. The lids of these larnakes had curious small ribbed handles set on the four corners.

All the larnakes were plain and unornamented, except for that from tomb VII, with a simple decoration of straight and wavy stripes in red paint; together with larnax IV from tomb VI, and the fine example unfortunately much destroyed from tomb XIII, which both had designs of spirals and papyrus flowers of a type classified by Furumark as Late Minoan IIIA 2.