File:Tombs excavated near Balaclava - ILN 1856.jpg
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Tombs near Balaclava, of the same kind excavated on the plains of Troy and the Chersonesus of Thrace | ||||||||
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The Illustrated London News |
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Tombs near Balaclava, of the same kind excavated on the plains of Troy and the Chersonesus of Thrace |
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English: Tombs of the same kind excavated on the plains of Troy and the Chersonesus of Thrace. Illustration for The Illustrated London News, 26 April 1856.page 451. Read the ILN
GREEK AND CRIMEAN TOMBS. (From a Correspondent.) THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS of the 8th December and l9th January contain Engravings representing the ancient buildings excavated by Colonel Munro near Balaclava, and the objects found therein. The writer of the description accompanying them apparently was ignorant of one of the modes adopted by the ancient Greeks in burying their dead in jars practised in Greece, Roumelia, Anatolia, Mytelene, the Ionian Islands, and many other places, or they would not have failed to perceive that the same custom extended to The Crimea, and that the remains found by Colonel Munro were merely those of an ancient burial-place. The following is a description of tombs of the same kind excavated by myself on the plains of Troy and the Chersonesus of Thrace, and which may tend to remove the erroneous suppositions that the use of the large earthen jars discovered near Balaclava were for the purpose of making wine or keeping grain, or that of receiving the blood of victims sacrificed within the temple. The jars are of all sizes, ranging from about 2 feet 2 inches long by 1 foot 8 inches wide to 6 feet long by 4 feet 7 inches wide, and constructed of coarse red clay, intermixed with gravel. M3Ir:y of them appear to have been cracked in baking, and are mended with leaden rivets. hey are all placed in a horizontal position, sometimes within an excavation made in the rock. A flat micaceous stone covers the mouth, which invariably face, the south or south-east The burnt skeletons are found lying on their back with upraised knee, surrounded by terra-cotta penates and vases (Lecythi and paterae), many of which are of the best period of the art, also blue, green, and yellow glass vases, and other small objects. (Vide Sketch.) |
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Depicted place | Balaklava | |||||||
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26 April 1856 date QS:P571,+1856-04-26T00:00:00Z/11 |
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Medium | Wood engraving | |||||||
Place of creation | London | |||||||
Source/Photographer | The Illustrated London News | |||||||
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