DENDRA - 2005

Dendra. E. Pappi (Δ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of a horse burial close to chamber tombs 2, 15 and 16 during cleaning in the northern part of the cemetery. A pair of horses (horses 5 and 6) were buried to the east of the pair 1 and 2 excavated in 1977. Four large irregularly shaped stones covered the eastern half of the grave, but cannot securely be associated with it. The horses were laid, confronting each other, directly on bedrock. The few sherds found by their back legs include plain Mycenaean kylikes. West of horses 3 and 4 from the 1977 excavations, between the dromoi of chamber tombs 15 and 16, was a collection of disarticulated horse bones from three or four individual animals. These finds increase the number of primary horse burials to three (with a pair of horses in each), with three to four displaced burials.