Βεργίνα 1989 : ανασκαφή στο νεκροταφείο στα ΒΔ της αρχαίας πόλης
Part of : Το Αρχαιολογικό Έργο στη Μακεδονία και στη Θράκη ; Vol.3, No.1, 1989, pages 1-11
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Vergina 1989 : the excavation of the cemetery
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Four graves of the 5th century B.C. were discovered east from the tomb with the throne, and very close to it. The two earlier ones, ΔΙΙΙ dated about 480 B.C. and AIV dated about 470-60 B.C., are pit-graves, while the later ones, K2 dated to the middle of the 5th century and K1 to the end of the same century, are cist-graves made of porosstones.All the graves were found looted, however, the few rich grave goods which survived, metal vessels, clay and stone vases, terracotta’s, suggest that the deceased were women of high social status. An interesting group of 25 terracotta-heads in natural size were found in the filling of the earliest grave (ΛΙΙΙ); it is highly probable that they were made in order to beused in a ritualistic practice, related to the specific burial. Most of the heads represent two idealistic female figures, while two of them represent two male «realistic» beardless and wrinkled heads, probably demons of the underworld. A number of metal vessels, an amber necklace, sheets of gold which decorated the clothes and covered the soles of the sandals of the deceased, and an Attic red-figure pelike painted by Hermonax were found during the excavation of the second pit-grave(AIV).Finally, an impressive group of ten Attic white lekythoi of the «Painter of the Women» and his group, an aryballoid lekythos of the group of the Meidias painter, a Panathenaic amphora, two ostrich eggs, a marble exaleiptron, two marble lekythoi,many pieces of gold jewellery and metal vessels were found in the larger cist-grave (K1 ).15 discs decorated with rosettes and stars and two gold conical artefacts were found in the smaller one. The figurines and the terracotta-heads found in the graves of the first quarter of the 5th century have eastern characteristics and thus imply the close relation of Aigai to Ionia. This relation is further attested by the finds of the earlier burials (ΛΙ dated to 530 B.C. and AII dated to 500 B.C.) which had been discovered in the same area in 1987 and 1988.
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νεκροταφεία, τάφοι, Βεργίνα, συνέδρια
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