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Marion : Tomb 51
(Mixed Material, Collection)
Persons
Sjöqvist, Erik
, 1903-1975
(researcher)
Origin
Marion
, Cyprus, Cypro-Classical I (c. 475-400 BC)
Other years/dates
Excavation date:
Excavated between March and late July, 1929, by the Swedish Cyprus Expedition at the necropolis at Kaparka, Marion.
Acquisition date:
1934
Physical description
Dromos; 313 (length); 68 (width)
(width)
x 230
(depth/thickness)
cm
Stomion; 86
(height/length)
x 49 (length); 59 (width)
(width)
cm
Chamber; 88
(height/length)
x 86 (length); 87 (width)
(width)
cm
The dromos is a very narrow staircase shaft with vertical walls, descending by seven steps to a horizontal platform in front of the door. The door is not placed, as usually, at the lower end of the dromos, but in the right side wall from the platform below the staircase. The door is rectangular with a nearly flat roof, and the door-packing consisted of a rectangular stone slab, surrounded by small wedging stones. The stomion is rectangular in plan, and on the same level as the bottom of the dromos, but 0.06 m. below the floor of the chamber. It opens on to the chamber in its longitudinal axis. The chamber is square in plan with rounded corners. Its roof is horizontal, and the floor is curved and sloping towards the back wall. The size of the chamber is unusually small.
Format:
Non digital
Abstract
The filling of the dromos consisted of an oblique bottom layer of gravel, and a thick top layer of homogenous chavara. In the chamber, there was a thin layer of culture and burial earth on the floor, only covered by a small, wedge-shaped layer of infiltrated dromos-filling in the stomion, and close to it. All the finds belong to one burial layer, and were found on the floor, or on the burial earth.
Contents
There were remains of one burial, represented by a layer of burial earth along the back wall of the chamber. The body seems to have been male. It was provided with iron arrow-heads, two gold finger-rings, and a deposit of tomb-gifts in pots. On account of the small size of the chamber, the position of the body must have been seated or squatting, but as the bones were quite mouldered, nothing for certain can be said about the position.
Literature
SCE II, Marion 51.
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Host:
Svenska Cypernexpeditionen : 1927-1931
Host:
Antiksamlingen i Uppsala
Subject, topics
Klassisk arkeologi
(sao)
Arkeologiska samlingar
(sao)
Subject, places
Marion
Location
Museum Gustavianum, historic collections
Akademigatan 3
753 10 Uppsala
Identifiers (general)
urn:nbn:se:alvin:portal:record-144585
(nbn)
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alvin-record:144585
(alvin)
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