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Marion : Tomb 36
(Mixed Material, Collection)
Persons
Sjöqvist, Erik
, 1903-1975
(researcher)
Origin
Marion
, Cyprus, Cypro-Classical II (c. 400-323 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; 350 (length); 129 (width)
(width)
x 223
(depth/thickness)
cm
Stomion; 122
(height/length)
x 46 (length); 66 (width)
(width)
cm
Chamber; 178
(height/length)
x 570 (length); 310 (width)
(width)
cm
The dromos is a rather short, rectangular staircase shaft with vertically cut walls, descending by six steps to the door. In the south wall of the dromos a side-chamber is cut in the rock. The main chamber opens as usual in the longitudinal axis of the dromos. The doorway has straight sides and almost horizontal roof. No door-packing was found, but at the bottom in the dromos, in front of the door and inside the stomion, a layer of dark earth apparently of mouldered wood. From this it seems justifyable to assume that the door had been of wood, and that a wooden floor was placed at the bottom of the dromos, in front of the door. The stomion is rectangular in plan, and its floor descends to that of the chamber by a step. It opens on to the chamber in its longitudinal axis. The chamber is oblong, rather narrow, and roughly trapezoidal in plan, with the side walls widening towards the back wall and the south end of the back wall curved. The floor of the chamber is approximately horizontal, and the roof is saddle-shaped. Along the wall several niches are cut into the rock. In the south side wall, close to the front wall is a short tunnel-shaped niche, furthermore in the same side wall is large, chamber-like niche with straight sides and rounded corners, and entered by a rectangular stomion. In the back wall there is a long tunnel-shaped niche, in the north side wall a small tunnel-shaped niche, a large chamber-like niche, and a loaf-shaped niche at the front end of the side wall. The floors of the niches are approximately on a level with that of the chamber, and are approximately horizontal. The small side-chamber in the dromos is rectangular in plan with rounded corners. The floor is horizontal and the roof is saddle-shaped. The stomion is rectangular in plan and descends to the chamber by an oblique step. At the door, there is a cutting in the rock for fixing the door; either it was of wood, probably like that of the main chamber, or a door slab removed by the robbers who entered the chambers.
Format:
Non digital
Abstract
The filling of the dromos consisted of a bottom layer of dark earth, and two upper layers of chavara. The layers in the chamber consisted of: 1) A white layer of rock debris with pieces of rock from the partly fallen-in roof. 2) An approximately horizontal layer of dark, infiltrated earth. 3) A horizontal, stilted, gray layer of rock debris. 4) A bottom stratum of burial earth, covered at the stomion by oblique layers of infiltrated dark earth and dromos chavara. In front of the side-chamber, the layers of the dromos-filling are disturbed by a shaft, dug by tomb-robbers, who have also mixed up the layers of the debris in the side-chamber itself. These layers were composed of an oblique bottom layer of dark earth; on the top of that a layer of rock debris; above that, a thin, horizontal layer of dark chavara and an oblique top layer of chavara, infiltrated from the dromos. Broken pieces of pottery were found in all the layers, except the top one. All the objects were found on the floor.
Contents
In all the niches of the chamber, burials have taken place, but the skeletons were completely mouldered and only thin dark layers of burial earth indicated the place of the bodies. The tomb-gifts were all deposited along the walls, leaving the central area free.
Assorted pottery: Marion Box 80-82, 84-91. 93-97, 99.
Literature
SCE II, Marion 36.
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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-144604
(nbn)
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alvin-record:144604
(alvin)
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