TAVROS - 2008

Tavros, 3 Daidalou St. (property of D. Lioli). M. Petritaki (ΚΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the discovery of a cemetery. A poros sarcophagus, 4 tile graves, 3 shaft graves and 3 pyres were excavated. The burials date in the 3^rd c. B.C. (mainly its second half) apart from one which dates in the late 4^th – early 3^rd c. B.C. The burial offerings indicate that at least 3 burials were female and 2 male. The offerings include phialidia, a flask, unguentaria, a salt cellar, a pyxis, kantharoi, a miniature plate, bronze mirrors, iron strigils, a bronze pin, and a miniature bronze, cylindrical vessel with its lid. Finds from the area of the cemetery include poros alabastra and a bronze obol. The cemetery was part of the complex of cemeteries north of the Long Walls.