SALAMINA - 2005

Salamina, junction of Glisti Street with a planned road (property of N. Chioti, O.T. 38). T. Kattoula (ΚΣΤ' ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery during two excavation seasons (in 2004 and 2005) of three cist graves and part of a funerary peribolos. Tomb 1 (excavated in 2004) had no goods. Tomb 2, a slab cist (2.2 x 0.82m), contained a supine inhumation plus a further displaced inhumation at the north side of the tomb. Grave goods comprise a palmette squat lekythos in the northwest corner of the tomb (dated by the excavator to the first quarter of the fourth century, although a date in the first half of the century is here preferred) and an iron strigil. Tomb 3, also a slab cist (2.47 x 1.1m), contained a supine inhumation, plus a late fifth-century black glaze Lykinic lekanis (on the southwest side of the tomb), a squat lekythos depicting a goose (by the cranium in the northeast corner), ca 150 bone beads of various shapes and sizes and two round bone discs from a necklace (found next to the lekanis), a bronze pin, five small bronze nails and two round pins probably from a wooden box (which may have held the necklace), and a patch of white lead by the east wall of the tomb.