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Marion : Tomb 5
(Mixed Material, Collection)
Persons
Sjöqvist, Erik
, 1903-1975
(researcher)
Origin
Marion
, Cyprus, Cypro-Archaic I (c. 700-600 BC)
Other years/dates
Excavation date:
Excavated between March and late July, 1929, by the Swedish Cyprus Expedition at the necropolis at Potamos tou Myrmikof, Marion.
Acquisition date:
1934
Physical description
Dromos; 200 (length); 144 (width)
(width)
x 250
(depth/thickness)
cm
Stomion; 142
(height/length)
x 56 (length); 111 (width)
(width)
cm
Chamber; 90
(height/length)
x 224 (length); 174 (width)
(width)
cm
The dromos is short, with four steps cut in the rock leading down to the door and nearly vertically cut side walls. Along the east long side is a horizontal bench cut in the rock, about 0.63 m. from the floor of the dromos, in front of the door-packing. The door has an arched roof. It was closed with a very solid door-packing built of large, rough stones and smaller pebbles. The floor of the stomion slopes gently down to that of the chamber and the door opens to the right of the longitudinal axis of the chamber. The chamber is nearly square in shape with rounded corners. Its floor slopes slightly towards the back, and the west side walls. The roof is flat and slopes down to the back wall. Its state of preservation is fairly good and only a part of it has fallen down.
Format:
Non digital
Abstract
The filling of the dromos consisted of two layers of chavara, the lower layer ending at the level of the top of the door-packing, and the upper layer reaching the rock surface. The layers were intact. In the chamber, the stratification consisted of covering layers of rock material from the fallen-in roof forming a heap in the central part of the chamber, a wedge-shaped layer of dromos chavara, which has infiltrated through the door-packing, and below these two burial strata. The lower of these rests directly on the sand-covered floor and the upper one on the culture stratum of the former, about 0.05-0.10 m. above the floor; representing an earlier and later burial period. Among the burials of the earlier period, a distinction can be made between one more recent and two older interments. The older interments are represented by some scanty remains of two previously removed skeletons found in the north-east part of the chamber together with some pots; the more recent by fragments of a skeleton in the centre of the chamber. Even this skeleton has been somewhat removed from its original position when the interment of the later burial took place. The crumbled remains of the skeleton of this body were found along the west side of the chamber.
Contents
Concerning the position of the skeletons of the earlier burials nothing for certain can be said, because, as stated above, they have been removed from their original places. From the position of the skull and scanty remains of ribs, femora, and tibiae of the skeleton of the latest burial, it can be ascertained that the body had been placed in a dorsal, outstretched position along the west side wall of the chamber, with the head in the north-west corner. The bodies had been supplied with the usual tomb-gifts, now destroyed, but once kept in the pots surrounding the skeletons. In the south-east corner of the dromos, in the upper part of the filling, a plain Archaic pot was found, having contained the last offering to the deceased and, after the libation, was left in the place where it was found.
Assorted pottery. Marion. Box 27-50.
UAS 1402, 1406, 1407, 1422, 1424, 1425, 1475, 1510-1513, 1320, 1521, 1523, 1524, 1541, 1544, 1547-1549.
Literature
SCE II, Marion 5.
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Host:
Svenska Cypernexpeditionen : 1927-1931
Host:
Antiksamlingen i Uppsala
Subject, topics
Klassisk arkeologi
(sao)
Arkeologiska samlingar
(sao)
Cypriotiska vaser
(sao)
Subject, places
Marion
Location
Museum Gustavianum, historic collections
Akademigatan 3
753 10 Uppsala
Identifiers (general)
urn:nbn:se:alvin:portal:record-144588
(nbn)
Identifiers (local)
alvin-record:144588
(alvin)
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