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The entrance of the tomb is from south. There are four rooms in the tomb – a corridor, an antechamber, a round chamber and a rectangular chamber. The last mentioned is built of two monolithic stone blocks and was used as a sarcophagus.

Dionysus, an ancient god, has been drawn on the marble door that closes the marble chamber. He was pictured as the sun on the eastern part of the door and as the earth and night on the western part.

A ceremonial bed and table were found in the rectangular chamber. They were covered with textile made of gold right before the funeral of a sanctified ruler. The name of the ruler, Seut III, is written on the helmet found in the chamber and on several other objects. These writings prove that one great ruler was buried there in the beginning of the 3rd century BC. The capital of the kingdom, Seutpolis, is situated a few кilometers southwest of the tomb, on the bottom of the Koprinka dam lake. Probably the body of the king was buried or burnt somewhere else because no human remains were found in the tomb. The bronze head of Seut’s statue that was set on a pedestal in Seutopolis was buried in the tomb instead of the body.

After the end of the funeral ceremony, priests blocked up the entrance of the round chamber, sacrificed the ruler’s horse and blocked up the antechamber’s entrance too. Then they set the hallway on fire and buried the bronze head seven meters away from the main entrance, according to the Orpheus customs.