CLASSICS 2K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Kerameikos, Aros Research Operating System, Urial
23 Feb 2017
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Depicts wife, husband, male individual, & likely male slave (as denoted by smaller stature) Male individual likely still living relative responsible for funerary commemoration (given that he is set apart from the couple) Common belief that life in hades was one long drinking party. Note: iconography of children & childhood used for older individuals, particularly for women. After the burial: visiting the tomb & the cult of the dead. Practiced concurrently from the 8th to the 4th century b. c. in greece. Classical- no evidence to indicate preference either way. Seems to have depended on preference (which also varied by region), cannot be determined by economic factors. Some of the most expensive grave gifts associated with inhumation burials- though cremations more often associated with high economic status. Unlike prothesis, burial is very rarely represented on pottery status. Interment & cremation are not often depicted in art.
