ALIPHEIRA - 2006

Alipheira, Diaselo (Aoni of Tasaion). Ch. Matzanas (Z’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports further investigation of a Hellenistic funerary monument which had been restored and partially investigated in 1932 and 1935 by A. Orlandos. Rescue excavation revealed that the three cover slabs had been removed from the -monument, and that it contained two tombs (1.90 x 0.40m and 1.70m deep), built of limestone and sandstone blocks. Tomb B had been looted and was filled with soil, sherds, bones and broken tiles; however fragments of tortoise shell were found in at a depth of 1.55m, and an unused ceramic pot and a red terracotta lamp next to the skull. This may be the grave of a female.
The facade of the funerary monument is 3m wide and preserved to a height of 1.50m. The stylobate and euthynteria are intact and well preserved. The southern retaining wall and three pillars, two in situ the third broken, also survive.