VARI - Kamini - 2006

Vari, Kamini, Agoriani Street (property of G. Steggou).Maria Kassimi-Souttou (ΚΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on discovery of 45 Mycenaean chamber tombs and 13 shaft graves in a cemetery area 30m southeast of the Varkiza Mycenaean cemetery. The chamber tombs were cut into the bedrock: their roofs had collapsed but their entrances were intact. Some burials contained one and others many human remains. Finds from the tombs and graves (vessels of various types - some intact, seals, knives, spindle whorls, beads, figurines, pendants, decorative plaques and lead wire) date the cemetery to Late Helladic IIIA1-IIIB2. The continuation of the cemetery was excavated in the Tsimi Bros. property on Thasou and Agorianis Streets. There is also a westwards continuation on the Martinou property to the west, where 39 graves (mostly chamber tombs) were excavated, with finds including 309 intact vessels, 36 phi and psi figurines, spindle whorls, and stone and faience beads.