Glyka Nera - Fouresi - 2008

Glyka Nera - Fouresi. Irene Vrettou (Ephorate of Antiquities of East Attica) reports the following:

In the period 2007-2008, two new chamber tombs were located in the Mycenaean cemetery of Fourezzi. Tomb 1 contained at least six people, three men and three women. Among them stands Burial 2 of a man over 40 years old, who was endowed with a bronze short sword, a copper hairpin and an agate seal stone. The two pseudo-mouthed amphorae associated with it date to LH IIIA2 / B1 period. Contemporary and equally important was the adjacent Burial 5, which belonged to a young woman 20-30 years old.

She was adorned with a variety of jewelry, an agate seal stone hung around her neck and a bronze knife. Near her was Burial 1, which belonged to a woman over 50 years old. It was adorned with jewelry, a spindle flywheel and three vessels, two pseudo-mouthed amphorae of LH IIIB1 and an insulated skyphos of LH IIIB2 / III. period. Burial 3 was simpler, with the complete skeleton of a man over 50 years old. A large number of steatite buttons were found near his ankles, while on his body were placed two false mouth amphorae and a cup with a protrusion of the LH IIIB2 period. Burial 6 was located next to it. These are the bones of the right female palm, which were found gathered under an inverted bronze bottle of the LH IIIA period. Burial 4 is considered the only certain recovery of the tomb. It consists of male tibia bones. An isolated cave of LH IIIB1 period was found near it. The periods of main use of Tomb 1 are placed in the LH IIIA2 / B1 and LH IIIB2 season, until the beginning of LH IIIC.

Tomb 2 belonged to an infant or toddler, as can be deduced from its small dimensions, the small vessels it contained, a figurine found inside it and the complete absence of bones. It dates to the beginning of the LH IIIB period and is probably associated with the dead of Tomb 1.