Graves just beyond the last houses of Myloi

1955 Proven

The excavators also found a Geometric cemetery "a short distance beyond the southernmost houses of the village of Myloi", at the foot of Pontinos. Caskey's lists of the graves and their locations are kept in the Lerna archive in Athens.

Where

Archaeological site of Lerna, Pontinos hill and castle

Who

John Langdon Caskey

Threads

Ancient Lerna

Certainty

Proven confirmed by primary sources

Pictures

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  Mt Pontinos and the area of the Geometric cemetery from the south-east, with houses of Myloi and the road/railway. J. L. Caskey / ASCSA Lerna excavation

Sources

• J. L. Caskey, Hesperia 25 (1956), pl. 48a
• ASCSA Archives, Lerna Excavations Archive (ExcRec 002), Box 12, folder 2 Open (opens in a new tab)

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1. 1952

   John Caskey starts digging at Lerna

   In 1952 the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, led by its director John L. Caskey, opened the first trenches in the low mound by the springs, at the edge of Myloi. The work went on every year until 1958.

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2. 1952–1953

   Caskey photographs the marshes of Lerna

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3. 1953

   A trench right beside the railway

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4. 1954

   The House of the Tiles comes to light

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