Ανασκαφή στο ανάκτορο και το νεκροταφείο των Αιγών
Part of : Το Αρχαιολογικό Έργο στη Μακεδονία και στη Θράκη ; Vol.20, No.1, 2006, pages 759-766
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Excavation at the palace and cemetery of Aigai
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The excavation at the “tholos” of the palace of Aigai demonstrated that the so-called exedra described by L. Heuzey in the 19th c. should be disconnected from the palace, since broken architectural members were used in its foundation. Consequently it should be dated in the years after the Roman conquest in the mid-second c. B.C., retaining though a sacred character, the main feature of the “tholos”.The “Stenomakri Toumba”, an oblong tumulus of the mid-fourth c. B.C. in the cemetery of ancient Aigai, was excavated in the years 1981 and 2003-2005. It covered three tombs, a pit-grave in the center and two cist-graves to the north and south. Each of them was surrounded by its own peribolos like the prehistoric tombs of the cemetery. An impressive monument was revealed at the eastern side of the tumulus, with one of the burial markers (semata) that it bore, a marble volute krater, buried in its foundation. The tombs were looted and the monument destroyed in the 3d c. B.C. by the Gauls and the 2nd c. B.C. by the Romans. However, the remains of the burial pyres connected to the cist-graves and the impressive weapons discovered in the central grave bear evidence to the social status of the deceased, who must have belonged to the nobility of the Macedonian kingdom during the reign of Philip II.
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