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In 2012 [20] Greek archaeologists unearthed a large tomb within the Kasta Hill, the biggest burial mound in Greece, northeast of Amphipolis. The large size and quality of the tumulus indicates the prominence of the burials made there, and its dating and the connections of the city with Alexander the Great suggest important occupants.
The Lion of Amphipolis (Greek: Λέων της Αμφίπολης) is a 4th-century BC tomb sculpture near Amphipolis, Macedonia, northern Greece. According to Oscar Broneer and archaeologist Dimitris Lazaridis , the first person excavating in the area in the 1960s, it was set up in honour of Laomedon of Mytilene , an important general of ...
Kasta tumulus and Amphipolis location map Kasta tumulus – view from Amphipolis. The Kasta Tomb (Greek: Τύμβος Καστά), also known as the Amphipolis Tomb (Greek: Τάφος της Αμφίπολης), is the largest ancient tumulus (burial mound) ever discovered in Greece, and by comparison dwarfs that of Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great, in Vergina.
Amphipolis — c. 200 BC Meletemata 22, Epig. App. 12 SEG 40.524 Archaic and Classical Greece By Michael Hewson Crawford, David Whitehead Page 596 ISBN 0-19-284202-1 The Hellenistic Age from the battle of Ipsos to the death of Kleopatra VII By Stanley Mayer Burstein Page 88 ISBN 0-521-28158-X
Outside view Museum of Amphipolis (Basement). The Archaeological Museum of Amphipolis is a museum in Amphipolis, Central Macedonia, Greece.It is located in the archaeological site of ancient Amphipolis (a city founded in 437 BC), near River Strymon at close range of the Thessaloniki–Kavala national highway and within the walls of the ancient city itself.
Brasidas (Greek: Βρασίδας, died 422 BC) was the most distinguished Spartan officer during the first decade of the Peloponnesian War. [1] He died during the Second Battle of Amphipolis while winning one of his most spectacular victories. Silver ossuary and gold crown of Brasidas in the Archaeological Museum of Amphipolis.
Galepsus or Galepsos (Ancient Greek: Γαληψός) was a Greek city located in the region of Edonis in ancient Thrace and later in Macedon. [1] It was located east of Phagres and about 17 km from Amphipolis. [1] It belonged to the Delian League and it was founded as a colony of Thasos. [2]
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