Υπομυκηναϊκός κιβωτιόσχημος τάφος εις Θήβας
Part of : Αρχαιολογικά ανάλεκτα εξ Αθηνών ; Vol.VIII, No.1, 1975, pages 86-90
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A sub-mycenaean cist-tomb at Thebes
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The cist-tomb published here was found by chance during cleaning operations in the Pavloyannopoulos property on Pelo- pidou street at Thebes, in the summer of 1973. It overlay an earlier Mycenaean deposit and actually a part of the Mycenaean Palace complex of Thebes which, as its excavation in 1964 has shown,was destroyed by a violent fire about the middle of the 13th century B. C.The tomb was long and rectangular with a lining as well as a covering of stone slabs, very like those familiar to the Dark Ages in Greece. It contained a single burial — an inhumation—with two late Sub - Mycenaean vases — an one-handled cup painted inside and outside and a small jug with polished surface. Both vases are wheel - made.We do not know whether this cist - tomb was a single tomb or whether it belonged to a group of such tombs. In any case, it lay very near the group of eleven cist-tombs found by Keramopoullos, by the Electran Gates at Thebes. It is very possible that the area included between the Electran Gates to thesouth and the Pavloyannopoulos property to the north was used as a cemetery during the Dark Ages. It is, of course, difficult to decide if these burials were intramural, since we have no trace of the Sub - Mycenaean settlement at Thebes. But, at least, the existence of the cist-tombs shows that the Mycenaean Acropolis was still inhabited during the Dark Ages.
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