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CHAPTER YI
SALAME AND KOUTSOKERA
Below the village of Vasilike in the plain to the west of Koumasa I found and
investigated two small tholos tombs at the sites called Salame and Koutsokera.
Both had apparently been looted in antiquity, which would explain the scarcity
of finds.
L THE THOLOS OF SALAME the tholos
of salame
Part of the circuit wall and of the doorway of the tholos at Salame could Description
be seen before the excavation, which revealed the whole of the circuit at little
depth. The doorway on the east had two jambs of rough limestone, but the
lintel was missing. The entrance was blocked with large stones.
The inner diameter of the tomb is 5-05 m., the thickness of the wall -80 m. to
•85 m., and the greatest height -70 m. The construction is of the usual type
of large and small stones bonded together with clay. No hollow vestibule was
found in front of the entrance, but it may well have been destroyed in the course
of cultivation.
Inside the tholos were found some large slabs fallen from the walls and a
great quantity of stones and rubble, the residue left by the people who picked
out the stones for building material after the collapse of the tomb. They had
destroyed the greater part of both these tholoi.
The tomb had been plundered and emptied of most of the burial stratum,
so that only a small quantity of bones was found, and a few objects, viz. :—
A. Metal Objects. metal
objects
1489, 1490. A pair of two-edged copper dagger blades of the long type, Daggers
with well-marked medial ribs.
1489 is -09 m. long and -023 m. broad at the base, which has four rivet-
holes.
1490 is -08 m. long, and being thinner is broken at the base, where only
one rivet-hole is preserved.
It is worthy of note that though they are so small these daggers are of
the long type, while the clay sherds found here belong to the first and second
Early Minoan periods, which suggests that the long type began to be made at
least'as early as E.M. II, and existed side by side with the triangular type
until it completely ousted the latter in the first Middle Minoan age.
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SALAME AND KOUTSOKERA
Below the village of Vasilike in the plain to the west of Koumasa I found and
investigated two small tholos tombs at the sites called Salame and Koutsokera.
Both had apparently been looted in antiquity, which would explain the scarcity
of finds.
L THE THOLOS OF SALAME the tholos
of salame
Part of the circuit wall and of the doorway of the tholos at Salame could Description
be seen before the excavation, which revealed the whole of the circuit at little
depth. The doorway on the east had two jambs of rough limestone, but the
lintel was missing. The entrance was blocked with large stones.
The inner diameter of the tomb is 5-05 m., the thickness of the wall -80 m. to
•85 m., and the greatest height -70 m. The construction is of the usual type
of large and small stones bonded together with clay. No hollow vestibule was
found in front of the entrance, but it may well have been destroyed in the course
of cultivation.
Inside the tholos were found some large slabs fallen from the walls and a
great quantity of stones and rubble, the residue left by the people who picked
out the stones for building material after the collapse of the tomb. They had
destroyed the greater part of both these tholoi.
The tomb had been plundered and emptied of most of the burial stratum,
so that only a small quantity of bones was found, and a few objects, viz. :—
A. Metal Objects. metal
objects
1489, 1490. A pair of two-edged copper dagger blades of the long type, Daggers
with well-marked medial ribs.
1489 is -09 m. long and -023 m. broad at the base, which has four rivet-
holes.
1490 is -08 m. long, and being thinner is broken at the base, where only
one rivet-hole is preserved.
It is worthy of note that though they are so small these daggers are of
the long type, while the clay sherds found here belong to the first and second
Early Minoan periods, which suggests that the long type began to be made at
least'as early as E.M. II, and existed side by side with the triangular type
until it completely ousted the latter in the first Middle Minoan age.
K
*