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GREECE PELOPONNESE KORINTHIA AIDONIA

2024-12-26

the Lower Cemetery
Aidonia stones in landscape Aidonia stones in landscape
Aidonia stones in landscape Aidonia stones in landscape

What a surprise in 2021! Giorgos shows me an area of apparently roughly worked ancient stones that showed up on the lower slopes of the cemetery hill. What was it? Archaeologists will resume work next year. - Well, nothing happened here in 2022 nor in 2023 and 2024, so perhaps next year.
Aidonia stones in landscape Aidonia stones in landscape
Aidonia stones in landscape men in Aidonia landscape

Tomb 'L1'

plan Lower Cemetery Aidonia

And there are more surprises in 2021: there are chamber tombs in this same area. - Left: my rough sketch plan of the relative locations of these tombs which have not yet been published.

Below: This one is 'L1' in my designation (L for lower cemetery), a chamber tomb with intact but unstable ceiling. Therefore the sign "Do not enter. Imminent danger of collapse". Its architecture resembles very much that of the other chamber tombs in the upper cemetery. But why are there two separate Mycenaean cemeteries?
Mycenaean chamber tomb Mycenaean chamber tomb
Mycenaean chamber tomb
Mycenaean chamber tomb

In 2022 there were no more barriers and 'L1' was accessible. But who knows of the tomb? - Below right: A niche in the wall of the dromos.
Mycenaean chamber tomb
Mycenaean tomb chamber

Above and below: Views of the tomb chamber with burial pits.
Mycenaean tomb chamber Mycenaean tomb chamber
Mycenaean tomb chamber
Mycenaean tomb chamber
Mycenaean chamber tomb Mycenaean chamber tomb