HELLINIKA ANTHEIAS - 2000

Ellinika, Antheia (G. Skartsili property). X. Arapogianni (then Director, Ζ' ΕΠΚΑ, now Director, ΚΗ' ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of a further Mycenaean chamber tomb (Ellinika 15: Fig. 1). While this is not part of the previously known Mycenaean cemetery (being 400m away), it is a monumental tomb, second in size only to Ellinika 6.

The near-square chamber (6.9m x 7.1m, 5.1m high) has a gabled roof: a bench was cut along the north and south walls. A north door leads into a side room (2m x 2.5m, 2.09m high). The dromos is cut by a farm road and only 9m of its length has been uncovered; it slopes down gently towards the tomb entrance. The tomb has a deep threshold; the dry-stone wall which sealed it was largely removed by looters in antiquity. Very few finds survive: by the door was part of a stone vessel plus gold shavings and a few sherds were scattered through the fill. Two burials without goods lay on the floor of the dromos just outside the chamber entrance: the first a single child burial and the second that of two individuals, one above the other. Finds are insufficient to indicate a date.