A new piece of the puzzle has been added this
week to the ongoing excavations at the Tomb
of Kasta Hill/Amphipolis as archaeologists have found three fragments of a marble door
at the entrance leading to the third chamber. This double door, imitating a
wooden door decorated with nails reinforces the theory that we are dealing with
a Macedonian tomb. Like for the other parts of the tomb, the marble comes from
nearby Thasos . The door panels have been
measured at 1.5 meters
wide and 14 cm
thick.
At first the possibility of looting was put
forward, but since the remains of the door were found in the second chamber
this indicates that the slabs were pushed from the inside out, either by the
severe earthquake that occurred in the 6th century AD or by the heavy shelling in the area during the Bulgarian attacks of 1913. Under pressure the door must have been
blasted forward.
[Reconstruction
made by the Greek Ministry of Culture.
Both pictures are released by the Greek Ministry of Culture]
The Tomb or heroon of Amphipolis is built above an Orphic sanctuary. it's downside level is a physical allegory of hades. I think that this very grave is oriented as the Cave of The Nymphs in the Thirteenth Book of the Odyssey.
ReplyDeleteRead this very carefully :http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/porphyry_cave_of_nymphs_02_translation.htm
Spectacular new findings http://www.newsbomb.gr/politismos/story/505952/amfipoli-apokalyfthike-to-megalytero-tmima-toy-psifidotoy
ReplyDeleteBut the excavation progresses so slowly and the expectation is so great, it seems, between statement and statement you spend months. The third chamber seems even unexcavated.
Thanks for the info. I heard the news just now. I hope to concentrate on this latest press release by the Greek Ministry of Culture very soon. Right now I am tied up with other obligations.
DeleteAnd a mysterious post on the blog of Dr. King. Are found, the horses of Alexander in the tomb?
ReplyDeletehttp://phdiva.blogspot.ca/2014/10/amphipolis-alexanders-horses.html