Ειδήσεις εκ Μεγαρίδος
Part of : Αρχαιολογικά ανάλεκτα εξ Αθηνών ; Vol.II, No.3, 1969, pages 339-343
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339-343
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News from Megaris
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Αρχαιολογικά χρονικά
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An interesting protocorinthian burial was found at the 19,5th klm. of the road leading from Megara to the springs on the Gerania Mountains, in a trench of water supply works, running parallel to the road. During the excavations 69 burials were found arranged into groups. They are dated in the 5th and 4th c. B.C. with the exception of one which belonged probably to Roman times.The protocorinthian burial (plan 1 ) was a monolithic sarcophagus of yellow « shelly limestone » placed in a trench. Two skeletons were found in it as well as some protocorinthian pottery with linear subgeometric decoration. The most characteristic is the oino- -.hoe fig. 1. Near the west side of the arcophagus a magnificent cotyle-kra- ter (fig. 2 ) was found which belonged to the same burial. The main decoration of the metopes arranged in a zone between the composite handles consists of lions and birds, partly incised in the way characteristic of the first quarter of the 7th c. B.C. The remainder of the body is covered withparallel lines and large solid rays above the base. A slab of shelly limestone was probably placed standing between the sarcophagus and the krater.The burial is near the ancient road which led from Megara through the town of Tripodisci over the Gerania Mountains to the Corinthian Isthmus.Further excavations will probably provide us with new data on the historical and topographical problems of Megaris. The burial itself is one more proof of the strong Corinthian influence in this area at the beginning of the 7th c. B.C.
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τάφοι, Μέγαρα
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