ARGOS - 2000

Argos, Herakleous Street (E. Nanopoulou property). E. Pappi (Δ' ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of a planned Late Middle Helladic cemetery in the northwest of Argos (Fig. 1).
Eleven tombs were investigated, arranged in two rows cut directly into riverine deposits. These are simple pits or pits with clay lining, generally defined with cobblestones. Each contained a single burial in contracted position, in seven instances without grave goods and in four with the usual offerings of cut-away necked prochoes, one-handled kyathoi and kantharoid skyphoi. Tomb 11, in the north of the plot − a cist of limestone orthostates covered by limestone slabs − contained a burial in extended position, with a bronze knife by the sternum, a second by the right shoulder and a bronze pin at the left shoulder. A bronze tongue-bladed knife lay among bones from a previous burial.
In the southwest, a Hellenistic building with walls of roughly-worked stones was preserved to ca. 0.5−0.7m high. Hellenistic activity was largely responsible for disturbance to the Middle Helladic tombs.