Mersinoudhia 1935

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Tomb no. 30 b

Chamber:1.50 x 1.50. Roughly rectangular. No trace of a skeleton, though the arrangement of the objects allows one to assume that a child was once buried here.

Contents:

Bronze pin .................................... 1

Pottery:Painted: Amphorae, handles to rim ...................... 3 Amphoriskos, horiz. handles ................... 1 Jugs, plain mouth ............................. 2 Barrel jugs ................................... 3 Jug with side-spout ........................... 1 Wide-mouthed jug .............................. 1 Lenticular flask .............................. 1 Stem cups ..................................... 2 Kalathiskos ................................... 1 Plates ........................................ 2 Undetermined .................................. 3

Pseudo-bucchero: Trefoil jug ................................... 1

Total 22 objects

This tomb belongs to the very earliest geometric period.

Several forms, as well as the tomb type, recall the Bronze Age.

Tomb no. 31

Dromos: 0.90; w. 1.00; d. 2.10. The outer end of the dromos was cut off by the first dromos of tomb 28 (see below). One stair is preserved. The floor of the dromos was covered with stones.

Chamber: 2.10 x 2.20; Roughly rectangular

One burial and one skeleton.

Contents:

Scarab, Egyptian ............................... 1 Bronze pin .................................... 1

Pottery: painted: Amphorae, handles to rim ...................... 4 Wide mouthed jugs ............................. 4 Barrel jugs ................................... 4 Stem cups ..................................... 5 Stem bowls .................................... 6

Pseudo-bucchero: Trefoil jugs .................................. 4 Red Buccnero: Bowls: ........................................ 3

Total 29

This tomb seems to belong to the end of the early geom. period.