VOULA Pegadakia - 2009

Voula, Thessalonikis 170 (O.T. 291, property of Aik. Papatheodorou). Mairi Giamalidi (ΚΣΤ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the discovery of 11 funeral pyres and a tile grave, all of which date to the 4^th c. B.C. (Figs. 1, 2). They lie near the cemetery of Halai Aixonidai. The pits for the pyres were all rock-cut. The pyres contained bones, pottery sherds, pyxides and their lids, bronze foils, numerous intact vessels, lekythoi, plates, skyphoi and a strigil. The tile grave contained a terracotta alabastron and a coin, which had been placed in the mouth of the dead. A pit for burial offerings was also revealed and contained numerous miniature vessels (skyphoi, plates, lekythoi and pyxides).