2.4 Tombs, graves and burial

Question 1

libation

Answer 1

a drink offering poured in honour of the gods

Question 2

What is the evidence for drink offerings being poured to the gods?

Answer 2

metal cups were found on the floor of the entrance of tholos tombs

Question 3

What suggests a meal was eaten in honour of the dead?

Answer 3

the bones of animals and sea shells have been found

Question 4

Was a clay burial casket common place?

Answer 4

no

Question 5

Who had a greater role in funerals?

Answer 5

women

Question 6

What is the most basic type of burial?

Answer 6

cist graves

Question 7

Describe a cist grave:

Answer 7

a shallow pit and the sides were covered in slabs of stone

Question 8

What happened to cist graves at the start of the Mycenaean age?

Answer 8

they began to be grouped together with a mound on top

Question 9

What happened to cist graves when a new body was to be buried?

Answer 9

the mound was opened up

Question 10

Describe a shaft grave

Answer 10

larger and deeper than a cist grave, with a chamber constructed from low rubble walls at the bottom, with roof support

Question 11

How were bodies laid in a shaft grave?

Answer 11

on their backs

Question 12

How were bodies laid in a cist grave?

Answer 12

in a curved position

Question 13

What was common to happen in one chamber?

Answer 13

multiple burials

Question 14

What style of burial emerged in the 14th century?

Answer 14

tholos tombs

Question 15

What were tholos tombs made of?

Answer 15

stone

Question 16

List the features of a tholos tomb:

Answer 16

-dromos = passageway
-decorated entrance
-dome
-side chamber

Question 17

After what century were tholos tombs rarley seen?

Answer 17

13th Century

Question 18

Where were less important nobles buried in the 14th Century?

Answer 18

chamber tombs

Question 19

How were chamber tombs different to tholos tombs?

Answer 19

they were dug into the Earth

Question 20

What was the most common item found in tombs?

Answer 20

pottery items

Question 21

What was also commonly found in tombs?

Answer 21

military items

Question 22

What were women often buried with

Answer 22

jewellery and cosmetic boxes

Question 23

What grave circle and shaft grave had the most impressive grave goods?

Answer 23

grave circle A, shaft 5

Question 24

Date of the Gold death mask of Agamemnon?

Answer 24

16th Century BC

Question 25

Location of Death mask of Agamemnon?

Answer 25

Grave 5, Circle A

Question 26

Material death mask of Agammenon

Answer 26

sheets of gold

Question 27

What techniques were used to create the death mask of Agammenon?

Answer 27

hammering and repousse

Question 28

How tall is the mask and how wide

Answer 28

17cm tall, 25cm wide

Question 29

How much does the death mask weigh?

Answer 29

168g