The Lantern-Roofed Tombs in Thrace and Anatolia: Some Evidence ...

during construction works in the middle of 1960s. 14 The funerary monument
consists of short dromos and rectangular lantern-roofed burial chamber, and
comes from the second half of the 4th century B.C. Two other tombs were
discovered in the inland of Bithynia – towards the border with Phrygia and
Galatia. The first one was investigated in 1974 in a tumulus close to Iğdir
Köyü. 15 The monument consists of short dromos and rectangular lantern-
roofed burial chamber. It dates to the 4th century B.C. and most probably to
the second half of the century. The other tomb was excavated in 1989 in
Yalacik tumulus close to Yukari Bağdere. 16 The monument consists of long
dromos, rectangular antechamber and rectangular lantern-roofed burial
chamber. It is dated to the 2nd – 1st century B.C., but an earlier date in the
Hellenistic Age could be also considered.
Close to the West of Mudanya and Gemlik, in Propontic Mysia, another
tomb of this type was excavated in Közemtüg tumulus at Daskyleion during
the 1990 campaign. 17 The monument consists of long dromos, rectangular
antechamber and rectangular lantern-roofed burial chamber. It is proposed
that the tomb comes from the first half of the 4th century B.C., but a
presumable later date to c. 330 B.C. should not be excluded, too. Another
tomb with lantern-roofed burial chamber was unearthed in the middle of
1950s near Kepsut, located in the inland of Mysia. 18 The brief information
on this discovery allows supposing that the monument could be dated to the
Late Classical or Hellenistic Age. A third similar tomb was excavated in the
beginning of 1960s at Musahocaköy in the southern part of Mysia – close to
the border with Lydia. 19 It is situated in a tumulus and consists of long
dromos, rectangular antechamber and rectangular lantern-roofed burial
chamber. The tomb most probably comes from the Late Classical or
Hellenistic Age. In fact, among all other Anatolian tombs of this type, the
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