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The toumba (mound) of Hagios Mamas : excavation of the cemetery

• Παππά, Μαρία

The rescue excavation carried out west from the mound of Hagios Mamas yielded the first early Bronze cemetery in Macedonia. Fifteen graves, divided into three groups, on the basis of their technical characteristics, and the process of the burial, were excavated. The groups comprise inhumation into a pithos, inhumation into a ground of pebbles and cremation in a grave which combines the characteristics of the above. The grave goods consist of jewellery and pottery. Among them, the necklace made of fajence beads is the most remarkable, being one of the earliest glass examples in Greece; this was found in one of the pots offerings. The same area was also used as a cemetery in the late Roman period. The Roman are built cist-graves, or graves covered with tiles, or pit-graves with or without covering slabs. The numismatic evidence dates them from the second half of the 2nd to the end of the 3rd century A.D. The burials are accompanied by jewellery, pottery and terracotta figurines. The architectural members and sculpture, as well as the funerary monuments serving in second use as covering slabs of the graves are significant. The Prehistoric cemetery is related to one of the chronological phases of the settlement of Hagios Mamas. However, the Roman cemetery has not yet been related to a settlement or city, since it is well known that the neighbouring Olynthus has not been inhabited since 348 B.C.

• History and Archaeology

• Ανασκαφές (Αρχαιολογία)

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