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Session 14 - Tumuli in Early Iron Age Greece (Anne-Zahra Chemsseddoha)

In Greece, the grave-tumulus is a well-known funerary architecture from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period. During the Early Iron Age, the use of tumulus is well-attested in the organisation of cemeteries in northern Greece as it becomes clearly evident, for example, by the necropolis of Vergina. Yet, because of scholarly focus on northern Greek tumuli, tumuli as a phenomenon that appears throughout Early Iron Age Greece has been overlooked. For the rest of Greece (speaking mainly for the ‘old’ Greek world), even if many communities use individual graves in ‘flat’ cemeteries for their dead, collective tumuli are still attested in central and southern Greece as well as on the islands. This presentation will be an introduction to a recent research on these monuments which are found throughout Greece during this crucial period, in order to raise questions about their architecture and function based on their geographical, cultural and social contexts. Comparisons are also made with grave tumuli discovered in ‘colonial’ and cross-cultural contexts in Italy, especially during the 8th and 7th centuries BC, when one can observe the beginnings of Greek and indigenous social dynamics and interactions. We should not disregard the fact that the word tumbos, first expressed in the Homeric epics, concealed varied burial markers and multifaceted and eclectic realities, which deserve to be discussed holistically.