Από τη διακόσμηση των νεκρικών κλινών
Part of : Αρχαιολογικά ανάλεκτα εξ Αθηνών ; Vol.XXII, No.1, 1989, pages 123-130
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123-130
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Decoration of a funerary couch
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Σύμμεικτα
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In the course of widening the Thessaloniki- Yannitsa public road a cist tomb dated to the end of the 4th or the beginning of 3rd cent. BC was discovered cut into the natural rock, with cavities at each end in which the legs of a wooden funerary couch sheathed with pieces of “faience” fitted.Three sets of decoration can be distinguished on the sheathing, which is 0.295 m in height. The first, on the lower part, consists of a light blue piece with a spiral between two scotias and a narrow band on top. The second consists of a light green piece with twenty-four grooves on the lower part and a scotia on the upper. The third consists of six light blue spirals and five light green scotias.The wooden funerary couch was a plainrectangular litter, whose legs went through the gaps formed by the successive perforated pieces of sheathing. Thus the plain litter was transformed by the ornamental sheathing into a couch with turned legs, showing strong Eastern influence on the individual decorative elements. Funerary couches with turned legs were not usual in Greece, and the form of the decoration of the couch in the tomb at Pella with the use of faience as sheathing on the wooden component is, as far as I know, unique at present.Analyses of samples of the sheathing of the couch legs showed that the material, which is very similar in appearance to faience, falls into the category of frit.
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τάφοι, Πέλλα
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