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CHAPTER YII
drak6nes
The site called Drakones 1 lies between Stavies and Phournopharangon, two
villages in the Mesara plain about three kilometres to the east of Koumasa.
Here I found and excavated two more tholoi close together. a small brook
had overflowed and washed away part of the wall of one of them (A), bringing
the bones to light, and this led to their discovery.
tholosa L THOLOS A
Tholos A has an inner diameter of 5-85 m., and the wall, built in the usual
way, stands to a height of about -80 m.
On the outside there are some projecting slabs. The part washed away,
about a third of the whole circuit, is on the west.
Round about, especially on the east, there are other buildings, badly
preserved, containing a number of bones and fragments of pithoi and larnakes.
From these buildings came most of the clay vases that we shall have to consider,
and a few of stone.
The entrance of the tomb, -75 m. wide, was on the south-east and preserves
one slab of the lintel.
Immediately below the surface, above the thin stratum containing the
bones, were many fragments of clay larnakes and pithoi. The inference is that
the burials in the larnakes and pithoi took place at a later date than the other
burials in the tomb.
As for the bones, some look unburnt, but others, and these mostly in the
southern part, were black from fire and smoke.
tholos z
II. THOLOS Z
Tholos Z, to the south of A and almost touching it, is larger and preserves
the whole circuit of its wall, with the door to the east and the rectangular
walled ante-room in front of it. The inner diameter is 7-05 m. to 7-20 m.,
the thickness of the wall 2-10 m., and its height in places 2-20 m. The width
of the entrance is 1 m. and its height 2 m. At the outer end it was blocked
by a wall -70 m. high. The ante-room measures 2-50 m. by 1-30 m.
1 The name Drak6nes (Apa/coi'es) is a corruption from the huge slabs of hard stone at the spot used
from at vSpaKovai, the whetstones, and is derived by the peasants for sharpening their larger tools.
drak6nes
The site called Drakones 1 lies between Stavies and Phournopharangon, two
villages in the Mesara plain about three kilometres to the east of Koumasa.
Here I found and excavated two more tholoi close together. a small brook
had overflowed and washed away part of the wall of one of them (A), bringing
the bones to light, and this led to their discovery.
tholosa L THOLOS A
Tholos A has an inner diameter of 5-85 m., and the wall, built in the usual
way, stands to a height of about -80 m.
On the outside there are some projecting slabs. The part washed away,
about a third of the whole circuit, is on the west.
Round about, especially on the east, there are other buildings, badly
preserved, containing a number of bones and fragments of pithoi and larnakes.
From these buildings came most of the clay vases that we shall have to consider,
and a few of stone.
The entrance of the tomb, -75 m. wide, was on the south-east and preserves
one slab of the lintel.
Immediately below the surface, above the thin stratum containing the
bones, were many fragments of clay larnakes and pithoi. The inference is that
the burials in the larnakes and pithoi took place at a later date than the other
burials in the tomb.
As for the bones, some look unburnt, but others, and these mostly in the
southern part, were black from fire and smoke.
tholos z
II. THOLOS Z
Tholos Z, to the south of A and almost touching it, is larger and preserves
the whole circuit of its wall, with the door to the east and the rectangular
walled ante-room in front of it. The inner diameter is 7-05 m. to 7-20 m.,
the thickness of the wall 2-10 m., and its height in places 2-20 m. The width
of the entrance is 1 m. and its height 2 m. At the outer end it was blocked
by a wall -70 m. high. The ante-room measures 2-50 m. by 1-30 m.
1 The name Drak6nes (Apa/coi'es) is a corruption from the huge slabs of hard stone at the spot used
from at vSpaKovai, the whetstones, and is derived by the peasants for sharpening their larger tools.