Tomb 649

Referred to as the Tomb with the Armours, this is also located at Moghar en Nasara necropolis and dated from the first century BC–first century AD. The tomb is approached by a long, but very weathered, staircase. The tomb is unique for its intricately sculpted frieze of armours. The armours carved out of the rock here includes a long oval shield with two axe-heads and a thunderbolt, a medallion with a medusa head, a cuirass (breastplate), a long oval shield with a medusa head at the center and an axe. The external façade is 12.5 m wide and 19 m high. The interior of the tomb consists of a broad chamber with an approximately square recess in the back wall, with a small loculus to the left of it, three loculi in the left side wall, and four loculi in the right side wall. Unfortunately, the lower part of the tomb’s façade is extremely weathered.


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