TSIKNIADES Kato Sangri - 2008

Tsikniades (Kato Sangri). O. Philaniotou (Director, Κ' ΕΠΚΑ) publishes 122 graves from a partially excavated ECyc cemetery, the majority of which had been looted at various stages from antiquity to the present day. Most were slab-lined cists of various forms. Some instances of 2-storey graves were noted, but recent damage was too great to identify the practice more widely. Only 27 unplundered graves had (very few) offerings (mostly of obsidian, also clay and marble vessels, marble figurines and, in one case, a silver bowl), which are considered in detail. The absence of human bones in some unplundered graves supports the suggestion that they were deliberately removed to a special repository after a period of time.