Pomos: Department rescue of two Hellenistic tombs (Kotronia and Aycolites)

In 1968 the Department of Antiquities reported two tombs in the cemetery at Pomos¹. The tomb at Aycolites was a large rectangular tomb, intact when found, with several burials and 151 objects. These included pottery, unguentaria, glass vessels (among them a green-yellow cup with moulded lotus buds), lamps mostly of Roman forms, a Vessberg type 10a lamp decorated with gladiatorial equipment, two pairs of gold earrings and a thin gold diadem¹. The report dates its use from the late Hellenistic into the Roman period, with coins between the beginning and end of the 1st century BC¹. The second tomb, at Kotronia and registered as no. 1922, was of late Hellenistic date and held mainly plain or glazed pottery and clay lamps¹.