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The Shaft Graves
The Shaft Graves
Graves
Panagia Tomb
Discovered and excavated in 1887 by Tsounta, however he didnt find
anything
The site was revisited in 1922 by Alan Wace who found various
potsherds in both the Dromos and the Tholos
There were only fragments from the LH2 and LH3 period found,
nothing from Late Helladic 1
Group 2
Wace placed the different Tholos tombs into groups. The Panagia
Tomb was put into group 2 along with Kato Phournos and the Lion
Tomb. They each have constructional features that allow them to be
put together. These include:
The Dromoi is lined with limestone rubble
The Stormion is built from hammer-dressed blocks rather than blocks
cut with a saw
peculiar nicks mark the inner lintel and suggest they were using
ropes to manoeuvre the slabs into position
poros pilasters used as the frame also have hammer and chisel marks
dromos cut from the bedrock
beehive style - vaulted dome shape in inner body of tomb
Location
The Aegisthus tomb is located
just to the SSW of the Citadel
walls and Grave circle A. It lies
within the limits of the Middle
Helladic ( Prehistoric)
cemetery.
http://www.mesogeia.net/trip/mycenae/mykaigisthos_en.html (pic)
2.
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/48672773 (pic )
3.
the construction of the aegisthus tholos tomb at Mycenae and the "Helladic Heresy" - Yannis
Galanakis Publication: The Annual of the British School at Athens Volume
102 Pages 239-256
4.
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/66456535(pic)
5.
Power and Architecture. Monumental Public Architecture in the Bronze Age Near East and
Aegean Year: 2007 pg 120-121 and 122-3
6.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~prehistory/aegean/?page_id=209(pic)
7.
Negotiating the Past in the Past: Identity, Memory, and Landscape in Archaeological Research,
Norman Yoffee University of Arizona Press, 2007 pg 89-90
8.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycenae#Late_Helladic_II_.28LHII.29