Mersinoudhia 1935

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Tomb no. 31

Dromos: l. 5.00; w. 1.80-2.10; d. 2.30. There are no steps, but the dromos slopes regularly down to the door. There is a pit directly in front of the door. The door was laced with rubble, and closed with two large slabs. In the dromos, near the door, was a niche closed with four large slabs, containing two pots but no trace of bones.

Chamber: 4.10 x 2.00; roughly circular.

Three burial periods; nine skeletons; the bones of a goat or animal of comparable size.

Contents:

Silver coil Bronze rings Scarabs Bronze bowls Bronze mirror Iron objects at least Worked stones Terracotta figurines Lamp, unbridged nozzle

Pottery: Pixnol, various shapes Amphorae, horizontal handles, large Amphorae, vertical handles, large " " , small Wide mouthed jugs Jugs, plain mouth Jugs, pear-shaped Jugs, side-spout Jugs, trefoil Bowls Plates Cup " candlesticks" Tripod Unidentified

Total 100 objects

This total of 100 objects which it was possible to remove identified is far from representing the total content of the tomb. The great mass of the pottery comes from the first period, the pots of which were piled in one corner in confusion. Thirty eight bundles of mixed fragments were also removed. The tomb begins in the early archaic period, with applied white and red paint, and comes down to poor burials of the 5th or 5th century.