Field photograph·C02309·1930

Tomb 24 at Amathus, dromos with opened gate

Tomb 24 at Amathus: a cut passage leading to a stone-blocked wall with an open doorway into the tomb chamber. — Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1930. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C02309. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A narrow passage cut into earth runs towards a wall of stacked flat stone blocks topped by a long slab. A dark doorway in the centre opens into the tomb chamber, with a stone threshold in front of it. The earth walls on both sides are rough and cut straight, and the floor of the passage is bare soil.

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Description, scan 2: A narrow passage cut between earth banks, the dromos of Tomb 24, leads to a doorway. Stacked stone slabs form the blocking above it, with a lintel slab over an opening into a dark chamber. Upright stone jambs frame the opening, and a threshold block lies at its foot; the passage floor is bare earth.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Tomb 24, dromos with opened gate. Amathus.

Swedish, as on the record

Grav 24, dromos med öppnad port. Amathus Svenska Cypernexpeditionen