grave good

plural grave goods

1. singularsingular of grave goods

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

   2003, A. K. Eyma, C. J. Bennett, A Delta-man in Yebu, page 131

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   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).

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

   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.

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

   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.

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