Dogs and People in Social, Working, Economic or Symbolic Interaction by Snyder L.;

Author:Snyder, L.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxbow Books, Limited
Published: 2017-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Fig. 6. Borger, burial mound XI, urn 2. Tooth fragments of the cremated dog. Scale bar = 1 cm

Dimini: the Lamióspito tholos tomb, Greece

The Lamióspito tholos (vaulted) tomb is situated 300 m northwest of the Neolithic and Bronze Age (Mycenaean) site of Dimini (Adrími-Sismáni 1990; 1991; Adrími-Sismáni et al. 1990). The archaeological site of Dimini is situated on a small hill 5 km west of the town of Volos, the capital of the district of Magnisia, on the way from Dimini to Sesklo. A tholos tomb consists of an entrance passage, the dromos, a narrowing in the dromos, the doorway or stomion, and the circular, vaulted, subterranean tomb itself, the thalamos. Tholos tombs are generally considered as the burial places of the local elite (Taylour 1983: 79–83).

H. G. Lolling and P. Wolters discovered the Lamióspito tholos tomb at the end of the 19th century and made excavations in the thalamos and the dromos (Lolling 1884: 99–103; Lolling and Wolters 1886; 1887). The Lamióspito thalamos has a diameter of 8.5 m and a height of 9 m; the stomion is 3.6 m high. Although the tomb had been plundered the excavation yielded rich finds, such as gold jewellery, beads and necklaces of glass-paste, ivory items and bronze weapons. A double human burial was also found.

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