Campos
Coordinates: 37 ° 1 '2 " N , 25 ° 5' 55.5" E
The corridor Kampos ( Greek Κάμπος ) is the site of a small burial ground on the Greek island of Paros . He is eponymous for the cultural stage of the Bronze Age Cycladic culture, which Eva-Maria Bossert called the Kampos group in 1965 .
The finds were published in 1926 and some of them are exhibited in the Paros Archaeological Museum . There is disagreement among scholars about the assignment of the Kampos group within the Early Cycladic period; their position as a link between the Grotta-Pelos culture and the Keros-Syros culture is undisputed .
location
The site is at the Agios Nikolaos chapel in the immediate vicinity of the west coast of Paros, about 2 km south of the Pounda jetty and 500 m southwest of the hamlet of Kambos .
Archaeological excavations
During the excavations in autumn 1924 under the direction of Irini Varoucha , four untouched early Cycladic stone box graves were examined; a single grave about 500 m south of the site had already been opened during field work.
Finds
The stone boxes with a rectangular or trapezoidal floor plan were made of vertical poros , slate or limestone slabs and the walls were partially supplemented with stacked rubble stones. The floors were unevenly designed, either covered with one or more stone slabs and in each case partially paved or laid with pebbles.
Skeletal remains were found in all four graves near the chapel, of which grave 1 was the only one containing the remains of two dead. Due to the location of the floor slabs and the skeletal remains, the excavator suspected that the dead were facing south in two graves; in the other cases, the remains were inconclusive. There is no information on burial for grave 5.
While grave 1 and grave 2 were without grave goods , grave 3 contained a handle on the base plate in the front grave area . In grave 4 the incised spherical clay pyxis and an incised clay bottle of the Kampos type were found. The context of the find is not known from grave 5; it contained a marble bowl without a handle on a trumpet base, a channel-shaped marble pallet and a damaged flat rectangular marble pallet with pierced corners.
Grip , type Kampos
Flat rectangular marble pallet and channel-shaped marble pallet
literature
- Irini Varoucha (Ειρήνη Βαρούχα): Κυκλαδικοί τάφοι της Πάρου. In: Hē En Athēnais Archaiologikē Hetaireia (ed.): Ephēmeris archaiologikē (Αρχαιολογική Εφημερίς), 1925–26, pp. 98–114, (digitalisat: online )
- Jörg Rambach: Cyclades I. The early Bronze Age grave and settlement findings. In: German Archaeological Institute (Ed.), Dr. Rudolf Habelt, Bonn 2000, simultaneous dissertation, Heidelberg, 1990, ISBN 978-3-7749-2831-2 , pp. 143-145, plate 80.