Archaeology Flashcards

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Temenos

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Dedicated land
Altar

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Votives

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Personal dedications
Representative of the devotee’s desire

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Peristyle

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Temple colonnades over 4 sides

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Perirrhanterion

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Ritual water basin

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5
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Hero cult

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Tombs

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Funeral process evidence

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Vase paintings
White ground lekythoi
Funerary monuments
Burials and cemeteries

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White ground lekythoi

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Only found in relation to funerals
Depict the bringing of gifts to grave sites or participation in veneration

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Prothesis

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Images on vase paintings of people with hands on their head signifying mourners

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Pinakes

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Pottery Tablets with images of funerary rituals
Present at grave sites

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Burial practice

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Cremation / inhumation both practiced between 8th - 4th centuries
Cremation remains in Terracotta or metal pot depending on wealth

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Stele

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Tombstone

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12
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Funerary monuments

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Mounds
Columns
Free standing sculpture
Peribolos
Stele

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Peribolos

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Semi enclosed wall enclosing an area of family burials

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