AGIOS NIKITAS - 2008
General Information
Record ID
432
Activity Date
2008
Chronologies
Key-words
Tomb - Tools/weapons - Dress and personal ornament - Metal - Stone - Cemetery - Building Type - Find Type - Material Type - Site Type
Type of Operation
Institution
Ministry of Culture (ΛΣτ' ΕΠΚΑ)
Toponym
Linked Record
2008
Report
Agios Nikitas. A Myc tholos tomb was discovered and partially destroyed in the course of work to widen the road from Ag. Nikitas towards the crossroads of Kathisma, in an area where Myc activity has not previously been attested. Rescue excavation by the ΛΣτ' ΕΠΚΑ (under its Director, M. Stavropoulou-Gatsi) followed.
The tholos was small (2.3m in diameter, 1.9m preserved height), and built with irregular series of local fieldstones. It contained many burials with grave offerings (illustrated) including handmade and wheelmade pottery (the latter mostly small vases as alabastra and prochoiskoi), 2 steatite sealstones, beads of different materials, spindle whorls, a bronze leaf-shaped point and clay spindle-whorls.The tombs was used in the LH IIIA and LH IIIB periods.
The tholos was small (2.3m in diameter, 1.9m preserved height), and built with irregular series of local fieldstones. It contained many burials with grave offerings (illustrated) including handmade and wheelmade pottery (the latter mostly small vases as alabastra and prochoiskoi), 2 steatite sealstones, beads of different materials, spindle whorls, a bronze leaf-shaped point and clay spindle-whorls.The tombs was used in the LH IIIA and LH IIIB periods.
Author
Catherine MORGAN
Bibliographic reference(s)
Ministry of Culture press release (http://www.yppo.gr, 05/03/2008); To Vima and Ethnos (06/03/2008); http://www.yppo.gr/0/anaskafes/pdfs/LST_EPKA.pdf
Date of creation
2009-12-01 00:00:00
Last modification
2018-08-22 09:24:29
Picture(s)
Fig. 1/ Agios Nikitas. Mycenaean tholos tomb.
Fig. 2/ Agios Nikitas. Mycenaean tholos tomb. Small finds.