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Location:

  • Cyprus, Égkomi
  • geo:35.174889,33.891026
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -700~ / unknown

Class:

  • Grave or burial field
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=32387

Annotations

The Royal Tomb 1 of Salamis consists of  dromos on the NE side and chamber on the SW end. It dates to Cypro- Geometric III (850–750 BC) - Cypro-Archaic I.period.

 

See:

  1. Vassos Karageorghis , Excavation in the necropolis of Salamis I (Text and Plates), 1967, pp. 26-27
  2. Nicholas G. Blackwell,  Mortuary Variability at Salamis (Cyprus): Relationships between and within the Royal Necropolis and the Cellarka Cemetery,  Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 23.2 (2010), pp.  143-167

Relevant museums

Cyprus Museum in Nicosia

Lefkosia. Archeological museum

Berlin, Neues Museum

Berlin, Neues Museum

Stockholm, Medelhavsmuseet

Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities

Paris, Louvre

Paris, Louvre


Nearby

Enkomi, Tomb III

Enkomi royal necropolis. Salamis.

Enkomi, Tomb II

Enkomi royal necropolis. Salamis.

Enkomi, Tomb XLVII

Royal necropolis of Salamis.


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