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Multi-periodSite Name: Starosel Tomb Alternative Name: Старосел, Kozi Gramadi, Horizont tumulus, К
Country: Bulgaria
NOTE: This site is 23.946 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Temple
 Nearest Village: Starosel
Latitude: 42.512187N  Longitude: 24.546884E
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Starosel Tomb
Starosel Tomb submitted by Andy B : View of the tomb with excavations Creative Commons image, source: Images from Bulgaria (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Temple in Bulgaria. The most famous kings of the Odrysae were Teres and Sitalkes, who were among the prominent historical figures of their time. The important archaelogical discoveries made near the village of Starosel, Kazanluk area, are associated precisely with them. A peculiar temple-tomb was found there in an enormous mound, possibly intended for King Sitalkes.

The Thracian states emerged early, but they can be traced only after 5th – 4th century BC. The structures created before the names of the royal-priestly ruling dynasties: Bessi, Triballoi, Getae and Edonoi. According to Herodotus, the Thracians were the most numerous people in the world after the Indians, but they never managed to unite in one state. During the 5th – 4th century BC, the kingdom of the Odrysae stretching in the lands between the Black Sea, the Danube and the Rhodope Mountains became most powerful. The ruins of its capital Seuthopolis are near the present-day town of Kazanluk.

Other sites include the Horizont tumulus (pictured below), where the only known Thracian temple featuring a colonnade (a Doric one) is located, as well as 9 other tumuli in the surrounding area.

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Starosel Tomb
Starosel Tomb submitted by Andy B : Inside the tomb Creative Commons image, source: Images from Bulgaria (Vote or comment on this photo)

Starosel Tomb
Starosel Tomb submitted by Andy B : Entrance to the tomb Creative Commons image, source: Images from Bulgaria (Vote or comment on this photo)

Starosel Tomb
Starosel Tomb submitted by Andy B (Vote or comment on this photo)

Starosel Tomb
Starosel Tomb submitted by Andy B : Columns from the Thracian tomb Creative Commons image, source: Images from Bulgaria (Vote or comment on this photo)

Starosel Tomb
Starosel Tomb submitted by Andy B : Protection for some of the excavated sections Creative Commons image, source: Images from Bulgaria

Starosel Tomb
Starosel Tomb submitted by Andy B : Close up of the tomb facing wall Creative Commons image, source: Images from Bulgaria

Starosel Tomb
Starosel Tomb submitted by Andy B : The tomb before excavation Creative Commons image, source: Images from Bulgaria

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Re: Starosel Tomb by davidmorgan on Friday, 08 July 2011
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There appear to be two tombs here at Starosel. I've put in the coordinates for the northern one. The other one is at 42.501042, 24.551159.
If it's anything like Kazanlak there might be a bunch of them scattered around.
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    Re: Starosel Tomb by Andy B on Friday, 08 July 2011
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    Yes, from what I can gather the photos I found are of Horizont tumulus but I'm not sure the exact location. There are supposed to be nine mounds in the immediate area.

    There are lots more creative commons photos of Bulgarian sites here, including some dolmens:
    http://imagesfrombulgaria.com/v/The_Bulgarian_History/
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    Re: Starosel Tomb by davidmorgan on Friday, 08 July 2011
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    Sorry, Andy, I didn't read the whole of your text. Nine of them, very nice. I think Horizont must be at 42.501046, 24.551168 judging by the Panoramio photo.
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Some additional articles about Starosel by Andy B on Thursday, 07 July 2011
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Some additional articles including some translated from the Bulgarian by Google:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starosel

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=bg&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.actualno.com%2Fnews_308365.html

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=bg&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fbg.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F%25D0%25A1%25D1%2582%25D0%25B0%25D1%2580%25D0%25BE%25D1%2581%25D0%25B5%25D0%25BB

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Bulgarian Archaeologists Find Iron Labrys at Ancient Thracian Kings' Residence by Andy B on Thursday, 07 July 2011
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Bulgarian archaeologists have dug up an iron labrys, a ceremonial doubleheaded ax, at the residence of the rulers of the Odrysian Kingdom, the state of the most powerful tribe of Ancient Thrace, located at the mount of Kozi Gramadi.

The ax was discovered on Monday, July 4, 2011, by the team of Ass. Prof. Ivan Hristov, Bulgaria's National History Museum announced on Tuesday.

It was dug up near the main gate of the fortified residence of the Odrysian rulers, and is the second labrys ever discovered at an Ancient Thrace site, after another such ax was found in the same archaeological site during its first more thorough excavation in 2005.

"The new find is very well preserved. It is 22 cm long, and very massive. We have several hypotheses for its use. The labrys was used more for certain types of processions rather than for household or military purposes," explained Dr. Ivan Hristov.

"Another hypotheses is derived from images from tombs in Ancient Macedonia or the tomb in near the village of Alexandrovo, Haskovo District, where the doubleheaded ax is carried by participants in royal hunts. We can assume that the ax was used – if not by the ruler himself – then by some of his associates during hunting. In this sense the finding of the iron weapon in the Ancient Thracian residence is no accident. We can only surmise about the everyday life of the aristocrats at the Kozi Gramadi mount 2 400 years ago when the forests all around the place were extremely good for hunting," the archaeologist said.

Hristov explained the labrys as a term in the Ancient Greek mythology was popular as the doubleheaded ax of Zeus Labraundos, a statue of a standing Zeus with the tall lotus-tipped scepter upright in his left hand and the double-headed axe, the labrys, over his right shoulder, in the mountains near the coast of Caria in Asia Minor.

The first images of labrys appeared in the 2nd millenium BC. In Ancient Thrace the oldest such images date back to the end of the Bronze Age.

For the first time in the Balkans, the labrys appeared as a ruler's symbol on the bronze coins of the Odrysian king Amatokos at the end of 5th century BC. The labrys is also visible on the coin stamps of ther Ancient Thracian rulers such Amatokos the Senior and Teres II. Fewer than 20 findings of a labrys have been discovered in Bulgaria to date.

Not counting the Odrysian rulers' coins, the newly-found ax is the fourth item in the form of a labrys in the Thracian residence at the Kozi Gramadi mount.

The new labrys will be exhibited at the National History Museum with other Ancient Thracian insignia.

The newly found labrys against the background of the Kozi Gramadi residence.

Since the new start of the excavations at the Kozi Gramadi mount this year, the Bulgarian archaeologists have made crucial discoveries, including details about its sacking by the troops of Philip II of Macedon.

The discoveries have been made within the project of Bulgaria's National History Museum, whose team started in early June 2011 the largest alpine expedition in the history of Bulgarian archaeology in order to excavate the residence of the rulers of the Odrysian Kingdom.

Bulgarian archaeologists uncovered the unique residence of the rulers of the Odrysian Kingdom in July 2010, after its location was initially detected in 2005.

The residence is located on the Kozi Gramadi mount in the Sredna Gora mountain, in the village of Starosel, close to the resort town of Hissar in central Bulgaria, at about 1 200 m above sea level.

In early June, the archaeologists uncovered in full the northeastern wall of the Thracian kings' residence; it is 13 m long, and has been preserved at a height of 2 m, according to the head of the expedition, Prof. Ivan Hristov.

Not unlike the facade of the building uncovered in 2005, the northeastern wall is made with "perfectly prepared

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Re: the Thracian temple at Starosel, near Plovdiv by Aluta on Tuesday, 23 March 2010
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Here's a photo of it before it was dug out: http://bit.ly/bu5Z2l Another strike in favour of the Bosnian Pyramids! ;-)
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the Thracian temple at Starosel, near Plovdiv by Andy B on Tuesday, 23 March 2010
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Lots more news on the Thracian temple at Starosel, near Plovdiv
http://www.kroraina.com/thracia/starosel.html
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Bulgarian Archaeologists Make Breakthrough in Ancient Thrace Tomb by Andy B on Tuesday, 23 March 2010
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One of Bulgaria’s top Ancient Thrace sites, the Starosel Tomb, has been dated to the 4th century BC after years of research.

With German help a team of archaeologists of the Bulgarian National History Museum led by Dr. Ivan Hristov has managed to estimate the timing of the construction of the largest underground temple on the Balkan Peninsula, the Starosel Tomb, located in the Hisarya Municipality, Plovdiv District.

In the summer of 2009, the archaeological team took samples from a stake in the middle of the tomb where gifts to the Greek goddess of the hearth Hestia were laid.

The radio carbon dating analysis carried out in Heidelberg, Germany, in the laboratory of Dr. Bernd Krommer, have shown that the stake was burned in the period after 358 BC, when the temple was constructed, and the earth was heaped on top of it to form a burial mound.

The analysis of the lab research and of the events which happened at that time have given archaeologist Ivan Hristov grounds to conclude that the temple in the village of Starosel, in the so called Chetinyova Mound, and the nearby Thracian ruler’s residence under Mount Kozi Gramadi were built during the reign of the Thracian King Amatokos II (359-351 BC), of the Thracian Odrysian state (5th-3rd century BC.

The family coat of arms of King Amatokos was a doubleheaded ax, or a labrys. Symbols of a labrys were discovered on several items around Starosel, including Thracian coins.

Before Dr. Hristov’s analysis, the researchers of Ancient Thrace believed that the Starosel tomb and underground temple complex were built by King Sitalces (445-424 BC), the third ruler of the Odrysian State.

The Thracian objects in the region of Starosel were also in operation during the reign of King Teres II (351-341 BC).

The archaeologists believe that the region was the power center of Ancient Thrace in the 4th century BC. It was destroyed during the rise of the Macedonian state of Philip II in 342-341 BC.

The Bulgarian archaeologists have reconstructed the so called “Holy Road” of the Thracians leading to their underground temples in Starosel, and are determined to continue revealing its secrets.

Archaeologist Ivan Hristov is preparing a book on the Chetinyova Mound in order to tell the story of the Temple of the Immortal Thracian Kings there.

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