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Prehistoric Graves in Syra

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2013

R. C. Bosanquet
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Last May, having to wait for a steamer at Syra, I seized the opportunity and rode out to the prehistoric necropolis on the north-east coast of the island. The distance from the agora of Hermoupolis is only three miles on the map, but nearly an hour and a half by the mule path, which starts from the picturesque upper town and runs along a range of desolate hills, passing on the left a cave which local antiquaries call the cave of Pherekydes.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 2 , November 1896 , pp. 141 - 144
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1896

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* First described by Pappadopoulos, Rév. Arch. 1862 p. 224 ff. He assigned the cemetery to Roman times ; “on pourrait done avec vraisemblance supposer que les exilés politiques morts dins l'ile de Gyaros étaient enterrés a Syra sur le plateau qui nous occupe.” A few of the vasts which he obtained are in the Athens Museum, and prove, as Dümmler showed in Ath. Mitth. xi. p. 34 ff., that the graves belong to the Amorgos period.

† ᾿Επιγραφαὶ τῆς νήσου Σύρου p. 8, note 7.