Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . / / / / ^ ^ / / / Fig. 6o.—Section of shaft-grave; Zafer Papoura, Crete (L.M.III). TEMPLES AND TOMBS 169 ornaments.^ The splen-did funeral state withwhich they were buriedwe already know.^ In the Cretan necro-polis of Zafer Papoura,near Knossos,^ we findshaft-graves of the ThirdLate Minoan period (Fig.60). The depth of theshaft proper . . whenthe surface was not de-nuded, ranged fromabout 2 metres to 3Jmetres. The sepulchralcells went down about ametre below this depth,and were made just largeenough to contain theext
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Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . / / / / ^ ^ / / / Fig. 6o.—Section of shaft-grave; Zafer Papoura, Crete (L.M.III). TEMPLES AND TOMBS 169 ornaments.^ The splen-did funeral state withwhich they were buriedwe already know.^ In the Cretan necro-polis of Zafer Papoura, near Knossos, ^ we findshaft-graves of the ThirdLate Minoan period (Fig.60). The depth of theshaft proper . . whenthe surface was not de-nuded, ranged fromabout 2 metres to 3Jmetres. The sepulchralcells went down about ametre below this depth, and were made just largeenough to contain theextended body. Theroof-slabs of the cellwere sometimes wellsquared and sometimesrough. In one grave acertain number of theobjects buried with thedead were placed abovethe slabs, owing to therebeing no room for themin the cell below. In onecase also there was no cellat all, its place beingtaken by a simple potterylar/iax beneath the slabs. P. 240. P. 11 #. ^ Evans, Prehistoric Tombs, P- !#• . 111 ? : JB lyo AEGEAN ARCHAEOLOGY The chamber-tombs (Fig. 6i) of Zafer Papoura, ap-proached by a dromos, were usually roughly rectangular, though round, horseshoe-shaped, and oval chambers arealso known elsewhere in Crete. The roofs were usuallydomed, shewing how the built tholos was but a modifi-cation of the chamber-tomb, which itself was but anartificial cave. Inside it was the larnax, containing thebody often in a crouched position, sometimes on theback with the legs drawn up sufficiently for it to beintroduced into the coffin. The door was blockedwith stones. At Zafer Papoura another type of tomb is found, which Sir Arthur Evans called the Pit-Cave. It is acombination of shaft-grave and chamber-tomb, havinga small chamber—^just long enough to contain anextended skeleton — approached by a vertical pit(Fig. 62). It thus closely resembles a well-knowntype of Egyptian tomb, though the chamber is muchsmaller. It is a chamber-tomb with the dromos turnedinto a vertical pit and the c