Ανασκαφή στο δυτικό νεκροταφείο του Αρχοντικού Πέλλας κατά το 2007 : η ταφική συστάδα του πολεμιστή με τη χρυσή μάσκα και άλλες ταφικές συστάδες
Part of : Το Αρχαιολογικό Έργο στη Μακεδονία και στη Θράκη ; Vol.21, No.1, 2007, pages 83-90
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Excavation in the western cemetery of Archontiko of Pella in 2007 : the grave group of the warrior with the gold mask and other grave groups
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Results from excavation of 84 graves in the Western Cemetery of Archontiko of Pella (in the fields of St. Dintsoudis and N. Taousanidis, Fig. 1) were also especially abundant in 2007. Ten pit graves and one cist grave belonging to the Iron Age included single burials accompanied by one or more vases. From among the 22 Classical and Early Hellenistic graves, the most important was the cremation grave T626, by virtue of the scene on the vase employed as its ash urn (a bell crater featuring a horseman and two youths facing right, Pi. 1 ). A total of 48 Archaic burials were investigated in the two fields as well; specifically, in the Dintsoudis field, 12 female and 14 male burials belonging to the Archaic Age were found. Of the female burials, T646, T652, and T665 are described; of the male burials, which belonged to the second and third class of warriors, T627 (PI. 2 presents the helmet from this burial), T637, T644 (accompanied by the column crater, PI. 3), T648, T651 (Pi. 4 shows its crater), and T666 are described. Fourteen Archaic graves were found in the Taousanidis field: four female burials came to light in the middle of the area under investigation, another six male burials in the northern section, and another four in the southern section (two of which were found looted). The Corinthian oinochoe with flat base from the female grave T686 (PI. 5) leads to a dating before the mid-6th century B.C. The most distinguished burial was that of T688, as is obvious from its jewelry, made of gold (Pi. 6) and other materials, its six bronze and six clay vases (a Corinthian aryballos and five Attic black figure vases, including an eye cup [Pi. 7]), which date it to ca. 510 B.C. From among the male graves, T683 and T685, which belonged to the second class of warriors, are described. In the southern part of the area investigated, T689A was destroyed by the excavation for the Hellenistic tomb T689, of nearly the same size. And excavation for the Hellenistic grave T691 destroyed a part of the stone protective enclosure (PI. 8) of the more important grave T692 (PI. 9), in which the warrior with the gold mask (after 530 B.C.) was buried. He belonged to the fourth class of warriors, since the tomb’s rich grave offerings (six terracotta figurines, four clay and eight bronze vases, models of equipment, jewelry, and weapons) also included a bronze Argive shield with spear-bearing horsemen on its band (PL 11). His helmet, whose frontispiece bears an incised decoration of two frontal lions walking “away from” their heads, falls within the group of rare “Illyro-Corinthian” type helmets (PI. 12).
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Πέλλα, νεκροταφεία
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