Amphipolis II
Posted: Tue May 16, 2023 12:48 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuZVNft ... annel=DIKT
This is a relatively recent interview, given by the excavator of the Kasta tomb Mrs Peristeri .It is a response to the minister of the current governement who denies the first identity of the monument (Hephaestion s grave ) The interview starts from the 1 minute of the video .Many lectures have been given on the excavation and the burial monument-the largest found so far in Hellas , but until now the complete publication of the monument has not been done.One explanation is that the monument is large and complex, but also that even a few years after the excavation ,the work somehow continued and new findings were brought to light.
The unshakable belief of the excavator , is that the monument was originaly the tomb of Alexander s general Hephaestion (and his family ? the question is mine ) As she says : ''we have found 2 inscriptions on the outside of the monument with the name of Hephaestion ,but also on the interior of the tomb we have found his monogram '' Regarding the 5 skeletons found she says : '' During the loosening of the soil by those who filled the grave to protect it ( 2century bC) bones fell from the graves ( there were 2 cemeteries of preistoric and arcaic era ) that were on the top of the hill -into the monument .The skeleton found in the grave below the floor was the one it is related to the constuction .It belongs to a man of about 34 years , height about 1.60 . The head is missing There were ashes on his feet.They are the ashes of the body of Hephaestion ,which was burned on the funeral pyre in Babylon .His ashes were placed in an urn ,and by order of Alexander they were brought in Amphipolis to be buried in a lavish monument .The monument also had the great marble lion on top of it ,proof that a very important man with a very high status was buried there .Pieces of the lion i found inside the tomb, during the excavation '''
This is a relatively recent interview, given by the excavator of the Kasta tomb Mrs Peristeri .It is a response to the minister of the current governement who denies the first identity of the monument (Hephaestion s grave ) The interview starts from the 1 minute of the video .Many lectures have been given on the excavation and the burial monument-the largest found so far in Hellas , but until now the complete publication of the monument has not been done.One explanation is that the monument is large and complex, but also that even a few years after the excavation ,the work somehow continued and new findings were brought to light.
The unshakable belief of the excavator , is that the monument was originaly the tomb of Alexander s general Hephaestion (and his family ? the question is mine ) As she says : ''we have found 2 inscriptions on the outside of the monument with the name of Hephaestion ,but also on the interior of the tomb we have found his monogram '' Regarding the 5 skeletons found she says : '' During the loosening of the soil by those who filled the grave to protect it ( 2century bC) bones fell from the graves ( there were 2 cemeteries of preistoric and arcaic era ) that were on the top of the hill -into the monument .The skeleton found in the grave below the floor was the one it is related to the constuction .It belongs to a man of about 34 years , height about 1.60 . The head is missing There were ashes on his feet.They are the ashes of the body of Hephaestion ,which was burned on the funeral pyre in Babylon .His ashes were placed in an urn ,and by order of Alexander they were brought in Amphipolis to be buried in a lavish monument .The monument also had the great marble lion on top of it ,proof that a very important man with a very high status was buried there .Pieces of the lion i found inside the tomb, during the excavation '''
