grave good

See also: grave-good

English

Noun

grave good (plural grave goods)

1. singular of grave goods
   • 2003, A. K. Eyma, C. J. Bennett, A Delta-man in Yebu, page 131:

     Only one of the excavated graves had a grave good, a single pot (Bakr et al. 1992: 20).

   • 2007, A.-Ph Christidēs, A.-F. Christidis, Maria Arapopoulou, A History of Ancient Greek: From the Beginnings to Late Antiquity:

     The second was inscribed on a late geometric skyphos (drinking-cup) made on Rhodes which was also a grave-good (in the grave of a boy twelve to fourteen years old [Buchner and Ridgway , ]) in the necropolis of Pithecusae (today's island of Ischia), a Euboean colony in the Gulf of Naples (Fig. 38).

   • 2013, Penny Bickle, Alasdair Whittle, The First Farmers of Central Europe:

     In Basse–Alsace and Baden-Württemberg, perhaps the 'lump' form was favoured as it fitted better with the reduced expectation of bodily adornment in the grave, but still allowed ochre to be used as a grave good, though this may not have been the case everywhere.

   • 2015, Lisa Trentin, The Hunchback in Hellenistic and Roman Art:

     Although most Etruscan mirrors with known provenance have been found in tombs, they were certainly not made specifically for the grave, but their secondary setting as a grave good suggests that they provided apotropaic protection both in life and in death.