pit-graves

Updated: May 26, 2025

They were found within a circular enclosure just inside the Lion Gate, above a group of six graves the so-called pit-graves or shaft-graves of Mycenae. The field, bordered by a double fillet, is divided horizontally into two parts. The upper part is filled with an ingeniously contrived system of running spirals. Spirals, apparently meaningless, fill in the vacant spaces.

Frank Bigelow Tarbell - A History of Greek Art