Tombs of Hellenic Date at Praesos

Professor Bosanquet has kindly asked me to publish the contents of the following tombs found on the east side of the gravel ridge, west of the road from Vavelloi (modern village) to ancient Praesos. The description of the objects is derived in the main from notes made at the time of excavation by Mr. J. H. Marshall in 1901 (cf. B.S.A. viii. pp. 231 ff.). I have added remarks on some of the ornaments (chiefly in gold and silver) which were discovered. Tomb 2.—Small b.-f. kylix. Tomb 3 (unbuilt).—Corinthian vase with four projecting handles; two pyxides, one broken. Tomb 6 (unbuilt).—Burnt b.-f. fragments; amphora of common ware; two toilet vases, red clay, sepia slip; small common juglet with two handles. Tomb 8 (burnt).—Bones; a few beads; b.-f. toilet vase; jug with high neck, of common ware. Tomb 9 (roughly built).—Two silver pins (one illustrated below, Fig. 4, on the r.; long-necked amphora with high shoulder handles, intact (25·8 cm. high); toilet vase with rounded sides; shell; iron axe above tomb, which was 1 m. deep. Tomb 10 (built of square blocks; floor ·71 m. down).—Silver ring; b.-f. fragments; common vase fragments, some incised with cross-hatchings; flat vase, like upper part of toilet vase, in bright red clay with sepia slip. Tomb 12 (roughly outlined and covered with irregular slabs; cremation).—Beads; burnt silver pins (?); part of iron strigil; fragments of b.-f. toilet vase; bronze ring and more beads near the tomb, probably belonging to it

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• Praisos III

  Open Access•James Whitley, Anthony James Monins Whitley et al.•The Annual of the British School…•1995

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• Praisos IV

  Open Access•James Whitley, Mieke Prent et al.•The Annual of the British School…•1999

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