Meaning of grave good | Babel Free

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singular of grave goods

form-of, singular

Examples

“Only one of the excavated graves had a grave good, a single pot (Bakr et al. 1992: 20).”

“The second was inscribed on a late geometric skyphos (drinking-cup) made on Rhodes which was also a grave-good (in the grave of a boy twelve to fourteen years old [Buchner and Ridgway , ]) in the necropolis of Pithecusae (today's island of Ischia), a Euboean colony in the Gulf of Naples (Fig. 38).”

“In Basse–Alsace and Baden-Württemberg, perhaps the 'lump' form was favoured as it fitted better with the reduced expectation of bodily adornment in the grave, but still allowed ochre to be used as a grave good, though this may not have been the case everywhere.”

“Although most Etruscan mirrors with known provenance have been found in tombs, they were certainly not made specifically for the grave, but their secondary setting as a grave good suggests that they provided apotropaic protection both in life and in death.”

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