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The south cemetery of Pydna

• Μπέσιος, Μάνθος

I. Makriyalos. Plot 587A secondary road of ancient Pydna was investigated, which was flanked by graves of the second half of the 3rd century BC and the first half of the 2nd century BC. There were 18 graves with inhumations (one cist-grave, 15 pit-graves, two tile- graves) and two with cremations (one, the remains of a girl, placed directly in a rectangular pit; the other with the cremated bones placed in a stone coffin made from part of an Ionic column).II. Alykes near Kitros. Plot owned by K. HryssohoidisThe excavation begun in 1984 in the Hryssohoidis plot continued. The graves are laid out in a triangular space bounded by the main arterial road that went from Pydna to southern Pieria in Antiquity and two secondary roads, which run W from the triangle. Already 78 graves have been investigated, most belonging to wealthy members of Pydnan society, the majority of them unlooted. They date to between the third quarter of the 4th century BC to just after the mid-2nd century BC: i.e. from the heyday of the kingdom of Macedon to its conquest by Rome. Needless to say, the finds are numerous; but most important of all is the fact that the cemetery provides interesting information about the form and the evolution of burial structures in Macedonia, as also about the duration of their use.

• History and Archaeology

• Αρχαιολογία

νεκροταφεία, Πύδνα