Tomb of Tholos from Kazarma
The Tholos tomb of Kazarma ( Greek Θολωτός Τάφος Καζάρμας ) is an underground dome tomb in the Argolis . It is located in Agios Ioannis, a district of Arkadiko on the southern slope of the Kazarma hill, and is about 8 m north of the road to Lygourio . About 300 m north of the rises Acropolis of Kazarma . According to the classification of Alan Wace , the grave belongs to the first Tholos group and dates to the Late Helladic Period (SH II A).
description
The dromos , about 5 m long and 2.50 m wide , led from the south to the entrance of the tomb. The entrance corridor (stomion) had a width of 1.55 m and a length of 2.50 m. Only the foundation walls of both the Dromos and the Stomion have been preserved. Only the rear part of the tomb dome has been preserved up to a height of 4 m. The dome was originally 7.20 m in diameter and around 7 m high. The construction of the lower part of the dome is similar to the Cyclopean tomb in Mycenae . It was built from large stones while smaller stones were used for the upper layers. Three grave shafts were dug into the soft rock floor, which were covered with large stone slabs. A woman was buried in shaft I and a man each in shafts II and III. The deceased were presumably a local elite who controlled the road from Epidaurus to Argos and who were in control in the period from 1500 to 1450 BC. BC found her final rest here. High-quality ceramics in the palace style , vessels from SH I and early SH II, jewelry and bronze weapons were found as grave goods.
The grave was still used afterwards. It is believed that the tomb was used by the same family for over 250 years. At the end of the use phase (LH III C, beginning of the 12th century BC), two dead bodies were buried in the burial chamber without any additions and a large fire was lit. The grave was finally closed and a calf and a small skyphos were sacrificed on a pile of stones in front of the entrance . As finds under the grave show, the place where it was built was already inhabited in the Early Helladic . It was excavated from September 1968 on the site of the Giannoulis brothers under the direction of Spyridon Marinatos . The finds are in the Archaeological Museum of Nafplio .
literature
- Nil Dirlik: The Tholos Tombs of Mycenaean Greece . 2012 ( PDF; 6.9 MB [accessed June 14, 2015] Master's thesis, Uppsala University).
- Evangelia Protonotariou-Deilaki: Θολωτός τάφος Καζάρμας . In: Αρχαιολογικά Ανάλεκτα εξ Αθηνών . tape 3 , no. 1 , 1968, p. 236-238 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Carla M. Antonaccio: An Archeology of Ancestors. Tomb Cult and Hero Cult in Early Greece . Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham 1995, ISBN 0-8476-7941-1 , pp. 28-29 .
- ↑ Evangelia Protonotariou-Deilaki: Άνασκαφή θολωτού μυκηναϊκού τάφου , in: Archaiologikon Deltion Volume 24, Part B1, 1969, 104-105
Coordinates: 37 ° 35 ′ 37.4 ″ N , 22 ° 56 ′ 33.6 ″ E