GREECE CRETE LASITHI MOCHLOS MAINLAND CEMETERY

Above: The interior of the neighbouring tombs U6 and 7 with the connecting hole. - Below: Tomb 13 has a dromos of 3.5 m in length with inclined side walls. Equally careful is the construction of the stomion with jambs cut from the bedrock. The large tomb contained seven burials, male and female, of different periods. With regard to the grave goods, it is also the richest tomb, containing a large number of vases and cups, steatite seals, rings, beads and other objects. It is one of the two tombs where objects were also placed outside the tomb chamber. In the dromos were found the fragments of a beautiful pomegranate-shaped rhyton, perhaps deliberately smashed into pieces, with the representation of an octopus. An identical rhyton was found inside the chamber, placed next to a sarcophagus. Already during the period of the burials, part of the ceiling had collapsed, its earth covering parts of the chamber.

Above and below: Clusters of tombs of the Late Minoan III cemetery.