DESCRIPTION
INFORMATION
 
 
Vaulted Macedonian tomb, 6,15 m. wide, 6,15 m. high and 10 m. long, with two chambers and a Doric facade of four semi-columns. The entrance was flanked by a stone relief door. A second marble door at the entrance of the burial chamber was decorated with a painted relief head of Medusa and relief shields. The tomb is lavishly decorated with ancient graffiti and votive inscriptions of the 1st century B.C. and the 3rd century A.D. The most important of these refers to Herakles and Alexander the Hero.

The tomb is dated to the end of the 4th century B.C.
 
 
 
Mythological / Historic Persons
Hercules