Phourni
The organizational method of each burial was dependent on the identities (different cultures and religions believed in different ways how the dead should be treated), of the people performing the practice.Since the dead were supplied with food and drink, they were presumably primary burials (i.e. fully articulated bodies) and not secondary collections of bones.Most of the grave goods show signs of use in mortal life (i.e. they were not designed specifically for funerary purposes).Finds include a dismembered corpse of a sacrificed horse, a bull's skull, a gold ring from a burial with a cultic scene engraved on it, knives, lead weights from a scale, 46 loom weights, a wine press, a libation table, bell-shaped figurines, approximately 250 cups, Early Minoan II seals, an Egyptian diorite vase, ivory seals and amulets and a pillar crypt.[6] The bodies of two women found in a Late Minoan tholos tomb are of almost certain royal or religious importance due to the wealth of objects and the unusual sacrifices of a horse and a bull made to the chambers.[6] Further, the Mycenaean Grave Enclosure is a part of the funerary complex located in the northern area of the cemetery.[6] It had been found with various offerings like bronze and ivory vases, gold signet rings and necklaces, beads, and glass-paste.[6] Tholos Tomb E is thought to be the initial funerary building created at the site, containing multiple burials and offerings.A seal stone is one of the various artifacts that archaeologists uncovered in the time of the Bronze Age in Greece, specifically in Phourni.Seal stones offer implications about technology, craft, religion, economy, and hierarchal society amongst the Minoan civilization.
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