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  • Greece, Zoodóchos Pigí
  • geo:37.064461,25.462873

Period or year

  • -9xx / -7xx

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  • graves
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Tsikalario on Naxos, Necropolis

data access 32033

Necropolis of the Geometrical period IX-VIII centuries at the SE foot of Apano Kastro hill (Upper Castle). The finds are housed at the Naxos Archaeological Museum in Chora. There are stone circular tombs,  furnished with pottery, golden jewelry, lances and burned fruit. Necropolis have been used mainly during the Geometric period and then quite sporadically, until at least the late archaic - early classical times.

Sources:

  1. Olga Kaklamani, Early Iron Age Cyclades through the funerary evidence, in Regional Stories towards a new perception of the early Greek world. Acts of an International Symposium in honour of Professor Jan Bouzek, Volos 18-21 June 2015, Volos, University of Thessaly Press, 2017, pp. 197-230
  2. https://kostasvakouftsis.blogspot.gr/2014/04/geometric-cemetery-of-tsikalario-on.html

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2017-01-01) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/32033
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Suggested citation: Elżbieta , Tsikalario on Naxos, Necropolis. https://vici.org/vici/32033, accessed 2026-11-06.