Mycenaean tomb Kalamaki beach (Attica) Kalamaki beach
Mycenaean tomb, Vanished tholos tomb under Leof. Alimou/Poseidonos interchange at Kalamaki beach
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Latitude: 37.905270
Longitude: 23.717400
Confidence: Medium
Place ID: 379237GKTh
Time period: B
Region: Attica
Country: Greece
Department: Athens S
Mod: Kalamaki beach
Read summary reports on the recent excavations at
Mycenaean tomb in
Chronique des fouilles en ligne – Archaeology in Greece Online.
Modern Description:
Nothing visible on the surface. Akti Kalamakiou at the end of Alimou Avenue. K. Kaza-Papageorgiou (ΚΣτ ΕΠΚΑ) reports (ArchDelt 56-59, 476) During the Olympic works of 2003-4, a World War II German emplacement built above a Mycenaean rock-cut chamber tomb was removed, revealing the chamber and dromos of the tomb. The dromos (3.5m long and 1.5m wide, oriented east-west) led to an opening into the chamber which was not preserved. Cut into the dromos floor was a deep pit covered by slabs. The rectangular chamber (4.6 x 4m) contained nine pits of various sizes and shapes, some empty, others with bones, pots and other finds. Despite the destruction caused by the emplacement, numerous finds were recovered: around 15 small pots (prochoes, stirrup jars, amphoriskoi, and kylikes, 5 phi figurines, a bird figurine, an elaborately modelled throne with two seated figures, and various items of jewellery of glass paste and semi-precious stones. The finds date from the end of the 14th through the 13th century BC. (Robert Pitt, Chronique)
Trismegistos Geo: 37741
Info: Chronique des Fouilles
(Archaeology in Greece Online)
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