During the road enlargement works in Ancient Amisos city, at Cedit quarter, it was informed on Tuesday, 28 November 1995 that a hole was seen and some researchers from the museum went there to work.
There was a tomb which had been constructed by carving the conglomerate rock layer. Its floor and ceiling walls had been stuccoed by mortar made of brick dust and lime. The dimensions of the tomb was 5-5.5 m and its height was 2.30 m. Inside the tomb, there were five graves three of which were used and two of which were vacant. It was so understood that this was a family tomb. After the skeletons in the three graves were examined, it was seen that two of them belonged to flames and one of them belonged to a male. Besides, when we examine the archaelogical remnants like jewellery (death gifts), post and pans, we think that the male grave may belong to a highlevel, administrator (like a Prince, King or Commander) of the Ponthus Kingdom and one of the graves of the females may belong to the wife (queen?) of the said person (king?) and the other grave may belong to their doughter.
We see that the jewellery are located in appropriate places (that is, the crown is on the head, necklace is on the neck and the earrings are at the level of the ear) in this tomb that is in the form of an Insitu.
Amisos had had its golden age during the Kingdom of Mithridades, VI. Ponthus King, and had become the government centre of the empire. Culture and art became widespread in this period and the most developed mints and ceramic ateliers of the ancient times were established and developed in Amisos. The richness of these graves, the quality and delicacy of the golden death gifts and the symbols used have close similarities with the shapes and symbols on the Amisos Coins minted during the period of Mithridades VI.
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