Το ανατολικό νεκροταφείο της Θεσσαλονίκης, και πάλι...
Part of : Το Αρχαιολογικό Έργο στη Μακεδονία και στη Θράκη ; Vol.17, No.1, 2003, pages 233-244
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233-244
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The east cemetery of Thessaloniki, once more...
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In the summer of 2003 a rescue excavation took place at 20, K. Melenikou Str., just inside the east wall of ancient Thessaloniki. Seventy-eight burials of various types were investigated, mostly tile-roofed and cist graves, dating to the 1st and 2nd cent. AD. Although only few of them yielded some grave goods, especially interesting was the revealing of a lead coffin, the second of this type ever to be found in the cemeteries of Thessaloniki.Moreover some unusual burial customs were detected here, including six cases of the so-called “plaster burials”; here pieces of gypsum with some traces of cloth on them implied that the dead were buried wrapped in shrouds and covered by this material, probably in an attempt to preserve the bodies.
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νεκροταφεία, Θεσσαλονίκη, συνέδρια
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