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Location:

  • Bulgaria, Mezek
  • geo:41.735222,26.101765
  • Location ± 100-500 m.

Period or year:

  • -3xx / unknown

Class:

  • Grave or burial field
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=22693

Annotations

The Mezek Thracian tomb dates to the fourth century BC. It is a large, elongated tomb consists of passage of 20.65 meters, two rectangular antechambers of different size and a round burial chamber with a stone sarcophagus. It was furnished with gold, silver, bronze, iron and glass items and pottery - housed in the National Archaeological Museum in Sofia.

  1. http://acikarsiv.ankara.edu.tr/browse/5709/Do%25C4%259Fu%2520Trakya%2527da%2520Mezar%2520Tepelerinin%2520Ortaya%2520%25C3%2587%25C4%25B1k%25C4%25B1%25C5%259F%25C4%25B1%2520ve%2520Geli%25C5%259Fimi.pdf?show
  2. Julia Valeva, Emil Nankov, Denver Graninger: A Companion to Ancient Thrace, John Wiley & Sons 2015,different pages
  3. Olivier Henry, Ute Kelp eds., Tumulus as Sema: Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millennium BC,Walter de Gruyter 2016, pp. 224, 284, diffr.

Nearby

Mezek Fortress (1 km)

Medieval castle

Burdenis (9 km)

Burdenis

Bourdepa (9 km)

Bourdepa


This object was added by Elżbieta on 2015-10-09. Last update by Elżbieta on 2021-06-06. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/22693 . Download as RDF/XML, GeoJSON, KML.
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