{"id":1861,"date":"2025-04-29T18:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T15:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.mouseioaianis.gr\/ancient-aiani\/the-archaeological-site-of-the-necropolis\/tomb-i\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T19:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T16:24:12","slug":"tomb-i","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/new.mouseioaianis.gr\/en\/ancient-aiani\/the-archaeological-site-of-the-necropolis\/tomb-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomb I"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Tomb I is the oldest built tomb in the Necropolis, with finds dating from the first half of the 6th century BC. Internally, it measures 3.60 m. long x 1.20 m. wide x 1.35 m. high. On the south-west side of the tomb one of the stone slabs from the roof survives intact. An impressive feature is the stepped arrangement of the stone courses around the burial chamber.<\/p>

The internal surfaces of the tomb were carefully coated with plaster and an impressive purple band 9.0 cm. wide runs around the burial chamber at a height of 0.82 m. above the floor. Above this another band is visible, which is bounded by two rows of nails and a painted line. These nails are believed to have secured a wooden board to the walls, on which were fastened (also with iron tacks) bone plaques decorated with scenes of women, shield-bearing warriors, chariots, animals, water birds etc. In addition to these plaques, which are masterpieces of miniature art, a number of other objects were gathered from the interior of the tomb, including the fragments of a black-figure oinochoe with a depiction of Dionysus and a group of maenads in procession, a number of figurines with heads cast from moulds and hand-made bodies that preserve traces of paint on the clothes, and a fragmentary gilded silver sheet depicting the Cyclops Polyphemus sitting down opposite two sheep with men tied underneath them. <\/p>

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THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF THE NECROPOLIS Tomb I is the oldest built tomb in the Necropolis, with finds dating from the first half of the 6th century BC. Internally, it measures 3.60 m. long x 1.20 m. wide x 1.35 m. high. On the south-west side of the tomb one of the stone slabs from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1750,"parent":1792,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"page-groups":[66],"class_list":["post-1861","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","page-groups-nekropoli-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.mouseioaianis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.mouseioaianis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.mouseioaianis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.mouseioaianis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.mouseioaianis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/new.mouseioaianis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1946,"href":"https:\/\/new.mouseioaianis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1861\/revisions\/1946"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.mouseioaianis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.mouseioaianis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.mouseioaianis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"page-groups","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.mouseioaianis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/page-groups?post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}