Vouni, Korakas and the palaceAlfred Westholm

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… the innermost part, where a few sherds of coarse pottery lie. In the vicinity of these, on the left-hand long wall, quite close to the corner, is the hole through which the robbers from tomb 9 forced their way into tomb 8, which has thus been plundered from here despite the dromos packing having remained untouched. The dromos is cleared entirely. and at the same time the chamber is excavated quarter by quarter, without any of the enormous collapse masses being transported out. At the gateway there still stands in situ a large roof slab (see longitudinal section) which has remained untouched despite the collapse aboveit. Inside this slab the stomion is marked by two monoliths these too in situ. Somewhat further into the tomb a square-hewn stone is found, which probably lay over these monoliths, limiting the stomion upwards. In the middle of the tomb … continues