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ΤΙΤΛΟΣ Ταφικό μνημείο Κισάμου
ΣΥΓΓΡΑΦΕΑΣ Σκόρδου Μαρία
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ΓΛΩΣΣΑ Ελληνικά / Greek
ΗΜ/ΝΙΑ ΔΗΜΟΣΙΕΥΣΗΣ 13.06.2018
ΛΕΞΕΙΣ ΚΛΕΙΔΙΑ ταφικό μνημείο, καμαροσκεπής, θαλαμωτός, τάφος, μακεδονικού τύπου, Κίσαμος
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Mon­u­men­tal tomb of Kissamos

The Ephor­ate of An­tiq­ui­ties of Cha­nia car­ried out a res­cue ex­ca­va­tion in the town of Kissamos prior to the con­struc­tion of the waste­water sew­er­age sys­tem (NSRF 2007-2013). The works of the pro­ject in Polemis­ton 1941 Street brought to light a mon­u­men­tal tomb, part of the an­cient ceme­tery of Kissamos which is lo­cated slightly to the north, close to the city bound­aries. This quar­ter cov­ers the west ceme­tery of the Ro­man pe­riod. This study con­cerns a fu­ner­ary mon­u­ment which typ­i­cally be­longed to a sin­gle wealthy fam­ily. A rock-cut sub­ter­ranean built cham­ber tomb dat­ing from the sec­ond half of the 1st c. AD was un­cov­ered and in­ves­ti­gated. It was found dis­turbed. How­ever, among the grave of­fer­ings that have es­caped loot­ing are glass ves­sels. These per­fume bot­tles have fea­tures in com­mon with ves­sels found in grave ex­ca­va­tions of the Early Ro­man pe­riod (1st-2nd c. AD) from the wider area of Crete and else­where. One dis­tinc­tive cat­e­gory of find is that of the metal ob­jects and ac­ces­sories. Also worth not­ing is the pres­ence of many gold foils and sheets which dec­o­rated the bur­ial cloth. Sim­i­lar mon­u­ments of the Early Ro­man pe­riod (1st-2nd c. AD) have been found in ex­ca­va­tions of Cen­tral and East Crete. This par­tic­u­lar type of built vaulted tomb, in­spired by the Mace­don­ian tombs, refers to the ‘Mace­don­ian type’ tombs of later Hel­lenis­tic times from the re­gions of Mace­do­nia, Thes­saly and Cen­tral Greece. The ar­chi­tec­tural ty­pol­ogy of the tomb com­ple­ments our view on the types of buri­als of West Crete and the or­ga­ni­za­tion of the Kissamos ceme­tery.