burial customs

• what did the dead wear when buried?

  • jewellery
  • clothes
• what did metal cups found in graves indicate?

  a drink offering to the gods
• what evidence is there to suggest a meal took place?

  • bones of animals
  • sea shells
• gifts were offered but no evidence exists
• where were slaughtered horses found?

  • marathon
  • dendra
• what would be placed over the burial?

  • a stele
  • raised mound of earth (so it can be seen from a distance)
• what would happen in an event of another burial?

  • mound redug
  • bodies laid in the same tomb
• where were the clay caskets found? what was on them?

  • tanagra (central greece)
  • funeral procession of elaborately dressed women
  • no men
  • women had hands raised to their heads
  • women were near bodies
  • one casket shows a body on a bed with dead body wrapped in a short tunic
  • casket shows a libarion poured in honour of the dead
• how common were clay caskets?

  extremely rare