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Surroundings:

Entrance to the Thracian tomb HelvetiaOstrushka TombGolyama Arsenalka Tomb - View from the antechamberGolyama Arsenalka TombThracian tomb Golyama ArsenalkaThracian tomb Golyama Arsenalka

Location:

  • Bulgaria, Shipka
  • geo:42.707275,25.348654
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -5xx~ / unknown

Class:

  • Grave or burial field
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=22691

Annotations

The temple tomb in Shushmanets mound consists of a wide-opened narthex, a barrel-vaulted antechamber with a supporting Ionic column and a large beehive burial chamber with a central Doric column and seven Doric semi-columns attached to the wall. 

See:

  1. http://www.muzei-kazanlak.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=74&Itemid=90&lang=en
  2. Şahin Yıldırım, Doğu Trakya'da Mezar Tepelerinin Ortaya Çıkışı ve Gelişimi, Ankara 2012 [turkish]
  3. Nikola Theodossiev, Monumental Tombs and Hero Cults in Thrace during the 5th-3rd centuries B.C.

Nearby

Mogila, Helvetia

Thracian tomb

Mogilla Griffin

Thracian tomb

Malka Kosmatka (1 km)

Thracian tomb.


This object was added by Elżbieta on 2015-10-09. Last update by Elżbieta on 2022-11-29. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/22691 . Download as RDF/XML, KML.
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