DAPHNI - Lakkathela - 2000

Daphni. X. Arapogianni (then Director, Ζ' ΕΠΚΑ, now Director, ΛΗ' ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of two collapsed tholos tombs in the course of work on the rural road to the south of the Mycenaean cemetery at Lakkathela (Fig. 1).
Tomb 14 lies 8.05m south of tomb 11, with the entrance to the east. The chamber is oval and the dromos slightly sloping. The chamber contained a single interment with, gathered together at one side, a cup, an alabastroid shape, an alabastron (Fig. 2) and a jar (Fig. 3), which date the tomb to LHIIIA1.
Tomb 15 lies 0.6m from the end of the dromos of tomb 9, with the entrance to the east. The large oval chamber is preserved to a height of 3.9m; the dromos slopes down steeply towards the stomion. The chamber contained four burials − three gathered on the south side and the fourth on the north. Two of the three were supine and the third was contracted, with around it two alabastra (Fig. 4 right), an alabastron-like form, a stone and a terracotta weight, and a sard bead. The fourth body had at the feet an alabastron (Fig. 4 left). The tomb dates to LHIIIA2 to LHIIIC.