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Internationale Archäologie [ISSN 0939-0561X] Edited by Claus Dobiat and Klaus Leidorf

[ IA 15 ]

Analysis of the representation and furnishing of warriors in Greek burial rite from the 10th to the 8th century B.C..

Andrea Bräuning

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Burial customs of the Geometric Period are illustrated by examples from Athens, Argos and Euboia. They are contrasted with the cemeteries of Vergina, Vitsa and Trebenište on the Greek periphery and Etrurian burials from Veji and Tarquinia. The author analyses statistics, burial rite, position, dating, grave goods and the presence of weapons. The weapon-custom was different in the centre and on the periphery. In the centre it started in PG and was practised in few male burials, that can be ascribed to a warrior elite according to later written sources. They are also different sometimes in that they were cremations, larger, situated differently, contained precious metals and objects for the symposion. Weapons ceased to be deposited in graves in M-LG, in Attica they were substituted by warrior pictures on grave vases. This abstraction is viewed in connexion with the change towards polis and phalanx. On the periphery male graves were furnished homogeniously, nearly all containing weapons. Extremely rich graves were unknown. Weapons were no status symbols, but defence and tool for everyday use in a simple community, later ruled by princely leaders.

Content:	142 pages, 10 illustrations, 26 tables		Cover:	Hardcover
Text:	German		Size:	21,0 x 29,7 cm / DIN A4
Abstracts in other languages:	English		weight:	960 g
Keywords:	burial rites, Geometric Period, warrior		Series:	Internationale Archäologie
			ISSN:	0939-0561X
Ph D thesis	Universität München, 1991		ISBN-13:	978-3-924734-33-6
			ISBN-10:	3-924734-33-X
			Place of Publication:	Espelkamp
Price:	46,00 € (fPr)		Date of Publication:	1995