GREECE MACEDONIA EMATHIA MIEZA KINCH TOMB

The Kinch tomb

The Macedonian Kinch tomb is named after the Danish architect K. F. Kinch who discovered it under a mound 2.50 m high and studied it in 1887, 1889 and 1892. It was severely damaged during the construction of the Athens-Thessaloniki railroad and was restored in 1970-71.

The Doric façade of the tomb, dated to the first half of the third century BC, has two antae with capitals on the sides of the door which was originally sealed with poros blocks. On the top is a Doric entablature with six triglyphs and six metopes painted blue and yellow respectively (no longer visible), and above this an Ionic kymation. - The tomb itself consists of a flat-roofed ante-chamber and a barrel-vaulted burial chamber. Both had a frieze with relief ornaments and coloured floral motifs, now lost. Also lost and known only from the excavator's drawings, is a painted panel on the eastern wall of the burial chamber showing a Macedonian on a galloping horse attacking a Persian on foot, who protects himself with his shield. The rest of the walls of the chamber were painted yellow and dark red.