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Excavation of the mycenaean cemetery of Kallithea in Boeotia

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• Σπυρόπουλος, Θεόδωρος Γ.

17 km Southeast of Thebes lies the small village of Kallithea, where a cemetery of the Mycenaean period was identified and excavated with very interesting results, which are reported briefly here (figs. 1 - 2 ).We opened 15 Chamber Tombs, cut in a rocky slope, North of the modern village. The cemetery does not seem to be very extensive and for the present we do not know the exact place of the settlement. We may, however, emphasizethe fact that another Mycenaean cemetery has been found and excavated scientifically and so may be added to the chain of the known Mycenaean sites of Boeotia, a fact which helps day by day to make more precise the picture of Mycenaean topography of Boeotia.The finds, which are numerous, include mainly pottery of the well- known forms of vases of the LH III A and LH IIIB periods ( see figs. 3 - 5 ), but we also found vases ( see fig. 4 ) which may be listed as unusual for the Boeotian repertory (i.e. the rhyta). Some figurines of Φ and Ψ type, a bull ( see fig. 5 ) with one horn shorter than the other, and a glass-paste bead, with the representation of a young man,belong among the finer finds of the excavation.A more detailed study of the material brought to light will make clearer the importance of the excavation of the Mycenaean Cemetery of Kallithea.

• History and Archaeology

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