Archaeology Flashcards
Temenos
Dedicated land
Altar
Votives
Personal dedications
Representative of the devotee’s desire
Peristyle
Temple colonnades over 4 sides
Perirrhanterion
Ritual water basin
Hero cult
Tombs
Funeral process evidence
Vase paintings
White ground lekythoi
Funerary monuments
Burials and cemeteries
White ground lekythoi
Only found in relation to funerals
Depict the bringing of gifts to grave sites or participation in veneration
Prothesis
Images on vase paintings of people with hands on their head signifying mourners
Pinakes
Pottery Tablets with images of funerary rituals
Present at grave sites
Burial practice
Cremation / inhumation both practiced between 8th - 4th centuries
Cremation remains in Terracotta or metal pot depending on wealth
Stele
Tombstone
Funerary monuments
Mounds
Columns
Free standing sculpture
Peribolos
Stele
Peribolos
Semi enclosed wall enclosing an area of family burials