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.
Lefkandi Heroon(?)
23.6728368
Pakkanen and Pakkanen 2000
Herdt 2015
Wikipedia (English) Lefkandi s.v. "Potential Heroon"
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Toumba Building
38.41320525
Pleiades
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.
Lefkandi Heroon(?)
twentieth century of the common era
Representative location based on OpenStreetMap
OSM location of Heroon
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OSM Way 761005142
OpenStreetMap (Way 761005142, version 2, osm:changeset=79239103, 2020-01-06T08:57:17Z)
tomb
A tomb as defined by the Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus term 300005926: "Elaborations constructed over or around burial sites."
Toumba Building
Toumba Building
1999
2022-09-19T07:40:59-04:00
Toumba Building
1900
Pakkanen and Pakkanen 2000
Pleiades