Author: G.A. Chatzidakis

Download article as .pdf: Tombe a camera nella Creta ellenistica. Fra memoria minoica e influenze egizie, levantine ed egee

The paper, part of a broader research project, intends to reassess the uneven and variously documented evidence relating exclusively to chamber tombs documented in Crete during the Hellenistic period, highlighting their numerical distribution and geographical spread, their chronological indicators, and their apparently selective use (or reuse) by specific social groups. Focusing on this funerary type makes it possible, owing to both the quantity and quality of the available data, as well as the symbolic significance of such burial choices, to elucidate the presence of particular social, ethnic, and political influences within Hellenistic Crete. The study thus aims to provide a further element for the reconstruction of the island’s funerary landscape during this period, which has so far remained marginal in scholarship, particularly in the case of Crete.