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The Mavro Spelio Cemetery at Knossos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

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Isolated tombs are known all round the site of Knossos, where they help to define the extent of the Minoan city, but the only considerable cemetery that had been found before last year was at Zafer Papoura, north of the Palace and between the Kairatos and the road to Herakleion. A solitary grave (the ‘Tomb of the Cow,’ a M.M. IIIb jar-burial) was accidentally discovered on the far side of the river, but search for other sepulchral remains in this region had produced nothing, though fragments of substantial buildings shewed that the town extended up the lower slopes of the eastern hills.

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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1927

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