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CLOSEPainted figured stelai from the “Great Tumulus” of Vergina/Aigai in light of new multispectral imaging
Myrina Kalaitzi, Giovanni Verri, Anastasios Kakamanoudis
New study and publication of the painted stelai from the “Great Tumulus” in Vergina (ancient Aigai), based on new multispectral imaging conducted in 2013, 2018 and 2019. The tombstones found in second use as building material in the “Great Tumulus” that covered the royal tombs excavated by Manolis Andronikos and his associates in the late 1970s, constitute a closed body of material, which, thanks to the special burial conditions in which it was deposited during the second phase of its use, has given us one of the rare series of Greek tombstones that preserve their painted figured scenes –in varying degrees of preservation. Thanks to the new study, we can more accurately assess these painted representations, while we have also been able to identify painted figured scenes that previously went unrecognized. The first part of the study has been published and the second part is currently in preparation.
- Μ. Kalaitzi, G. Verri, A. Kakamanoudis, “The Figured Stelai from the ‘Great Tumulus’ of Aigai Revisited: New Findings on the Distribution of Pigments and Aspects of their Iconography – Part II”, in M. Kalaitzi and M. Stamatopoulou (eds.), Illustrating the Levant. Studies on the Visual Culture(s) of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East, from the Late Classical to the Roman Imperial period (forthcoming).
- Μ. Kalaitzi, G. Verri, “The Figured Stelai from the “Great Tumulus” of Aigai Revisited: New Findings on the Distribution of Pigments and Aspects of their Iconography”, in Η. Brecoulaki (ed.), Archaeology of Colour. Technical Art History Studies in Greek and Roman Painting and Polychromy, Μελετήματα 87 (Athens 2023)147-90.
Main page image: Painted funerary stele of Kleonymos, Adymos, Peukolaos, and Krino, from the “Great Tumulus” at Aigai, shown through multi-spectral imaging. / © Ephorate of Antiquities of Emathia; M. Kalaitzi, G. Verri.