Directly to the left of the entrance of Room F, in three showcases all with the number 8, is a display of the grave goods from a rich female burial, whose location was pointed out by a local inhabitant who handed in four bronze vases that lay above the burial. The excavation revealed the pit-grave of a young woman with impressive gold jewellery: a necklace consisting of a braided chain terminating in lion’s heads that was fastened with the so-called ‘Herakles knot’; a ring depicting an eros; three bow fibulas and earrings with a five-petalled rosette and a hanging pyramidal ornament with two cockerels – a work of rare workmanship and subject-matter. By the woman’s feet had been placed a bronze kylix, a red-figure askos with a depiction of women, a silver and a clay kalyx, a black-glazed plate, a clay lamp, and a red-figure lekythion. A number of knuckle-bones were also found, as well as a silver lekythion and – by the woman’s knees – a bronze coin of Philip II.

Dr Areti Chondroyianni-Metoki