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Excavations at Palaikastro. III: § 9.—The Larnax Burials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2013

C. T. Currelly
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In 1904 trial-pits on the cliffs brought to light a group of larnax-burials not far from the one that was found in 1902 and is described in B.S.A. viii. p. 302, and Fig. 17, p. 302. The indications visible were, as then, pieces of limestone set in line. In several cases the burials were found at the bottom of shallow pits, but in the largest group (5–8 on the plan given in Fig. 9) the larnakes had been thrust under a projecting ledge of conglomerate in a hole scooped out to receive them, and the whole covered up with earth.

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Research Article
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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 10 , November 1904 , pp. 227 - 231
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1904

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page 228 note 1 See Man, 1902, 119, ‘Sometimes the principal bones were formed into a kind of bed, on which several skulls were laid,’ and B.S.A. viii. p. 292, Fig. 6.