Published 2016
“…The appropriation of certain aspects of past display by some aristocratic families, and ultimately the use of this archaizing funerary architecture occurred at a period when elite competition was very strong in the region at both civic and Panhellenic level, and family, civic and
ethnic identity were created by vari- ous means. During this period there were alternative modes of burial available to elite groups even at Krannon and Pharsalos (for example tumuli covering carefully built cist graves or monolithic sarcoph- agi). …”
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