Hellenistic and Roman Period Cemetery

The Makronisos’ cemetery includes 19 tombs. The Hellenistic and Roman tombs (2400 B.C.). The entrances were originally closed with one large or two smaller calcarenite slabs. They are all provided with a rectangular trench in the middle, slightly lower than the floor of the stepped dromos and three benches at the slides of the chamber. Some of the tombs have additionally one loculus carved on the longitudinal axis of the tomb opposite the entrance, while another is provided with four benches at the sides and one opposite the entrance, thus providing room for five internments. Among the findings are clay sarcophagi which were originally covered with three flats tile and a limestone Korre statuette. (Both are displayed in THALASSA Municipal Museum).