PHRIXA - 2005

General Information

Record ID

4295

Activity Date

2005

Chronologies

Antiquity - Classical - Hellenistic

Key-words

Lamp - Cemetery - Find Type - Site Type

Type of Operation

Excavation - Rescue excavation

Institution

Ζ' Εφορεία Προϊστορικών και Κλασικών Αρχαιοτήτων (Ζ' ΕΠΚΑ)

Localisation

Toponym
Frixa, Prixa, Anemochorakion

Linked Record

2005

Report

Phrixa (property of Ch. Papakyritsi). X. Arapogianni (Ζ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of two stone-built cist tombs, oriented east-west, in parallel, which probably belonged to an extensive Late Classical or Early Hellenistic cemetery.

Tomb 1 (1.9 x 0.55m), found almost intact (with its cover-slab in situ) contained two supine inhumations, with a lamp placed between the thigh-bones of one.

Tomb 2 (1.94 x 0.55m), which had been badly disturbed by a mechanical digger, contained the bones of two burials heaped at the west edge of the grave, with a lamp among them. A later, supine inhumation was also accompanied by a lamp.

Author

Catherine MORGAN

Bibliographic reference(s)

ADelt 60 (2005) Chr. B1 309-310