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« on: March 05, 2016, 09:44:51 pm »

Inscription Spurs Debate Over Mysterious Greek Tomb
Mar 2, 2016 09:00 AM ET // by Rossella Lorenzi
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The sketch of the inscribed block presented by the Greek archaeologists (top); Chugg's reconstruction from the 1970s photo shows how the Π of ΠΑΡΕΛΑΒΟΝ was cut off the block when it was shortened.

Andrew Chugg (red characters in the inscription); American School of Classical Studies at Athens (bottom photo)




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An incomplete inscription might reopen the debate about the identity of the owner of a tomb from the Alexander the Great era, according to new research into blocks from the circular retaining wall of the mysterious mound. The tomb was unsealed in northern Greece 18 months ago.

Dated to between 325 B.C. -- two years before Alexander the Great’s death -- and 300 B.C., the tomb is located in Amphipolis, east of Thessaloniki, and is billed as the largest of its kind in the Greek world, measuring more than 1,600 feet in circumference.
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According to study author Andrew Chugg, a missing Π, or pi, clearly discards the archaeologists’s theory linking the burial to Hephaestion, Alexander the Great’s beloved friend and general.
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Chugg argues that the blocks, originally cut for monuments to Hephaistion on Alexander’s order, were simply re-used to build the massive tomb a few years after the Macedonian king’s death.

Last October, head archaeologist Katerina Peristeri announced at a conference in Thessaloniki that three inscriptions pointed to the individual originally commemorated by the mysterious monument

“Chances are that this is a funerary heroon (hero worship shrine) dedicated to Hephaestion,” Peristeri said.
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The announcement came at the end of an extraordinary exploration that for months wound through huge decapitated sphinxes, walls guarded by colossal female statues, and floors decorated with stunning mosaics.

At the end of the digging, bone fragments were found. They belonged to at least five individuals who were identified as being a woman, two men, a newborn baby and a cremated adult whose gender could not be verified.

Featuring the monogram of Hephaestion, the three inscriptions were decoded to read: ΠΑΡΕΛΑΒΟΝ ΗΦΑΙΣΤΙΩΝ ΑΝΤ. According to Peristeri and her team, they meant “I, Antigonus received construction material for the **** of a monument in honor of Hephaestion.”

During her presentation, Peristeri showed sketches and photos of two inscriptions which read ΑΡΕΛΑΒΟΝ. The word would have stood for ΠΑΡΕΛΑΒΟΝ, meaning “received by” or “received for.”

“They left a blank space in their drawing. Everyone thought it meant the Π was simply not there on the stone of the block,” said Chugg, who also authored "The Quest for the Tomb of Alexander the Great."
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The sketch of the inscribed block presented by the Greek archaeologists (top); Chugg's reconstruction from the 1970s photo shows how the Π of ΠΑΡΕΛΑΒΟΝ was cut off the block when it was shortened.

Andrew Chugg (red characters in the inscription); American School of Classical Studies at Athens (bottom photo)

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