Early medieval burial of woman and fox at the slog necropolis in Ravna (Timacum Minus) in Eastern Serbia
On the eastern slope of Slog Hill in Ravna, some 400 m to the west of the Roman fortification of Timacum Minus, a multilayered necropolis was investigated from 1994 to 1996 and from 2013 to 2015. There are two main horizons of the necropolis - Late Roman and Early Medieval. The late Roman...
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Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade, Serbia
2020-01-01
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-0241/2020/0350-02412070239P.pdf |
| Summary: | On the eastern slope of Slog Hill in Ravna, some 400 m to the west of the
Roman fortification of Timacum Minus, a multilayered necropolis was
investigated from 1994 to 1996 and from 2013 to 2015. There are two main
horizons of the necropolis - Late Roman and Early Medieval. The late Roman
necropolis has three phases dated from the middle of the 4th to the middle
of the 5th century. The early medieval necropolis, according to the new
excavations, has two phases, the earlier dated to the 8th - 9th centuries
and the later from the end of the 9th to the beginning of the 11th century.
An interesting grave (G 159), belonging to the earlier medieval phase of
necropolis, was discovered in 2014. It is a unique burial of a woman and a
fox, which has its only analogy in a disturbed woman and fox grave (grave
16) at the early Avar necropolis in Bečej. The burial with a fox could be
interpreted in two ways - that the animal has a cult - ritual - magic
meaning or that the fox was a pet of the deceased. |
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| ISSN: | 0350-0241 2406-0739 |