ATHENS - GAZI - 2009

Athens, Ghazi, 102-104 Piraeus Avenue. M. Tsichli (Γ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the discovery of a 4^th-3^rd c. B.C. cemetery. In total 26 burials were found: 15 tile graves, 1 cist grave, 4 pit graves, 3 pyres, 2 open burials and 1 inurned cremation. In all the burials the skeletons were found in the supine position.

Burial 1: Tile grave containing six fourth-century unguentaria.

Burial 2: Tile grave containing two inhumations. This is the only burial that dates in the 1^st c. B.C.-1^st c. A.D. It also contained an iron ring and an unguentarium.

Burial 5: Tile grave (Figs 1,2). It contained two terracotta albastra (400-375 B.C., an iron strigil and 2 squat lekythoi (Fig 3).

Burial 6: Tile grave containing three unguentaria (3^rd c. B.C.).

Burial 7: Tile grave (Figs 4,5). It contained two unguentaria (3^rd c. B.C.)

Burial 8: Tile grave containing a terracotta alabastron, a black-glaze squat lekythos with a red palmette and a bronze mirror.

Burial 13: Tile grave containing a black-glazed phialidio and a black-glazed squat lekythos (4^th c. B.C.) (Fig 6).

Burial 16: Cist grave (Figs 7,8). The cist was of yellowish poros stone. It contained 2 black-glazed lekythoi (first half of 4^th c. B.C.), a black-glazed kantharos (375-340 B.C.), an iron strigil, 2 undecorated bowls and a black-glazed phialidio (Fig 9).

Burial 20: pit grave containing a bronze mirror and a black-glazed squat lekythos (375-350 B.C.).

Burial 21: Pyre. A shell, a bronze boss, a bronze nail and 5^th c. B.C. pottery sherds were found in the ashes.

Burial 26: Inurned cremation. The vessel used was a kalathos which had been broken and mended in antiquity with lead clamps. This most likely was a child burial.