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Lefkandi Heroon(?)

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker

Contributors: Tom Elliott

Last modified Sep 19, 2022 07:40 AM — History

Rescue excavations in 1980 documented the remains of an unusual funerary structure dated ca. 1000 to 950 BCE that contained a double human burial alongside a horse burial. The structure's scale (50 by 13.8 m) and nature have led some scholars to identify it as a heroon.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/176836030

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
38.41320525, 23.6728368

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Heroon (unspecified date range)

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Geographic Names:
- Toumba Building (English, AD 1900 - AD 1999)

Lefkandi Heroon(?) makes connections with:

Lefkandi Heroon(?) located at Lefkandi (unspecified date range)

Lefkandi Heroon(?) receives connections from:

None

Place type:
tomb

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Lefkandi Heroon(?): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/176836030> [accessed: 25 September 2023]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/176836030 |title=Places: 176836030 (Lefkandi Heroon(?)) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=September 25, 2023 5:38 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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Lefkandi Heroon(?)