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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