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D119: Geyre Cemetery Tomb 3
dc.contributor.authorAphrodisias Regional Surveyen_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-08-24T18:51:33Z
dc.date.available2012-08-24T18:51:33Z
dc.date.issued2007-06-01en_US
dc.identifier.citationPage reference: Christopher Ratté and Peter D. De Staebler (eds.). Aphrodisias V. The Aphrodisias Regional Survey (Verlag Philipp von Zabern: Darmstadt/Mainz, 2012), 324. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/92841>en_US
dc.identifier.otherD119en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/92841
dc.descriptionLocal Name: Aphrodisias, Northeast Necropolisen_US
dc.descriptionLocal Information: Old Geyre Cemetery in use at least up to 2003en_US
dc.descriptionLatitude: 37.42.41.7en_US
dc.descriptionLongitude: 28.43.50.6en_US
dc.descriptionElevation: 534men_US
dc.descriptionAxis: Southen_US
dc.descriptionDescription: Well preserved; entirely cleared by the museum. The tomb chamber (L: 3.17 m, W: 2.82 m) is covered by a barrel vault, which is partly collapsed at the southern end. Neither threshold nor lintel is preserved, but the doorway in the south wall was 0.85 m wide and the wall 0.58 m thick. The tomb entrance is preceded by a forecourt (W: at least 2.50 m, L: at least 1.30m); the western wall is roughly aligned with the western wall of the tomb chamber. The walls of the chamber are built of regularly coursed marble petit appareil masonry in 10 courses (blocks H: 0.16 to 0.28 m). The mortar beds are scored and significantly overlap the edges of the stones. Many blocks have split faces, and where the break is especially smooth the surface has been roughened with a point chisel. The front wall and side walls do not appear to be bonded, and the coursing does not align. The side walls and the back wall are bonded for their lower two-thirds, then the rising back wall fills in the space below vault. The construction of the lower half of the vault is continuous with the walls, however the stones (H: 0.12-0.18 m; L: 0.30-0.40 m) are corbelled rather than laid radially. Where the vault is broken away to the south, the structure of the upper part is seen; the split voussoirs are relatively long and thin (L: 0.27-0.34 m, W: 0.07-0.13 m) and set between thick mortar beds. The lower surface of the vault is thickly mortared, and a clay pipe pierces the ceiling about 0.95 m from the north wall. The area of the floor is evenly divided into three cists (L: 1.85 m, W: 0.74 to 0.80 m). Sections of the cover slabs over the central and northern cists remain in situ (schist, northern: L: 1.15 m, W: 1.85 m, Th: 0.14 m; gray marble, central: L: 0.50 m, W: 1.14 m, Th: 0.15 m). The central is 2.25 m below the vault, the same level as the bottom of the doorway, and the cover of the southern cist would have been at this same level. The northern slab is higher, at 1.72 m below the vault. The dividing wall between the central and northern cists is thicker in the lower part to provide a shelf for the central cover slab (lower 0.45-0.46 m, upper 0.35-0.36). An upper cist may have been built atop the existing northern cist; a narrow schist shelf for the support of an upper cover slab projects from the northern wall 0.74 m above the northern cover slab, and an opening (H: 0.47 m, W: 0.79 m) was built into the upper part of the dividing wall between the central and northern cists which would have allowed continued access to the lower northern cist after the upper had been built. A patch of plaster preserved at the southern end of the western wall only continues as far as the location of the cover slab of the southern cist, indicating that the wall was plastered after the first burials were completed.en_US
dc.relationD117, D118, D120, D122, D124, D125, D126, D133en_US
dc.subjectTombsen_US
dc.subject4: Romanen_US
dc.subject5: Late Romanen_US
dc.titleD119: Geyre Cemetery Tomb 3en_US
dc.typeOtheren_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelArchaeologyen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciencesen_US
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dc.owningcollnameAphrodisias Regional Survey


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