GLYKA NERA, Phouresi - 2008

Phouresi, Aiolou 11 (property of Eu. Panagopoulou) Eirini Brettou(B’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on the discovery of another Mycenaean chamber tomb (Fig. 1). The first was found and reported in 2007. This tomb, like the previous one, had an E-W orientation. The dromos was 13.8 m. long and 1.5 m. wide. Numerous sherds from drinking vessels and other open vessels were found near the entrance to the chamber. The latter had been sealed with a dry-stone wall and rock-cut pillars stood on either side of it. The chamber was rectangular and contained three clearly discernible burials and numerous other bones. Out of the three primary burials one was of a woman and the other two of men. Out of the scattered bones, some belonged to a second woman.

Burial 1: female burial in a supine position. The burial offerings include a LHIIIB skyphos (Fig 2.) and a stirrup jar.

Burial 2: male burial. The burial offerings include a bronze sword, 2 LHIIIA2 stirrup jars, a pair of tweezers and a seal stone.

Burial 3: male burial in a supine position. The burial offerings include 2 LHIIIA2 feeding bottles (Fig. 3), 2 LHIIIB2 stirrup jars and a kyathos.

Athena Hatzidimitriou (B’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on other finds in the chamber. These are associated either with the scattered bones or the aforementioned burials and include 2 pithoid amphorae (Fig. 4), a LHIIIA2 stirrup jar, a necklace of faience beads (Fig. 5), 200 more faience beads, a blue-green glass bracelet or necklace, 27 steatite disks, a steatite spindle whorl, a bronze fibula, a bronze tweezer, a bronze phiale, a bronze dagger, and two seal stones (Figs. 6, 7). The tomb dates to the 14^th and 13^th c. B.C.