Honouring the Dead in the Peloponnese - University of Nottingham

Marioanna Louka
conical elements linked by a spiral and 5 small wheels, decorated with
geometric motifs on both sides. This type of adornment is to be found also
further to the north, namely in the Geometric tumuli of Vergina. 20 Her arms
were adorned with five spiral bracelets, some of which ended in an incised
motif and some with the schematized heads of snakes. Her fingers were
adorned with two spiral rings and four tubular biconical rings. Her peplos
was fixed in place by three ‘Helladic’ fibulae, bearing incised decoration of
animals and birds. Finally, the jewels accompanying this woman were
completed by two spectacle fibulae and two iron arch-shaped fibulae. We
therefore note that through the course of the centuries, female adornment is
extended to a larger part of the female body – although we are not yet in a
position to testify as to the reasons that led to such a choice, that is, whether it
was the result of greater affluence but also a quest for a means of highlighting
female beauty.
FIG. 10. Reconstitution of a late Geometric female burial from Dadi (Phthiotis).
National Archaeological Museum, Karapanos Collection.
and found in Kuç I Zi, Korçe (Illyria) and therefore attest to the fertile exchanges between the
Balkan world and metropolitan Greece. Cf. Andrea 1976, 204–231 pl. XV.
20
Andronikos 1969, pl. 83 Ia.
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