Object type
cremation urn
Fabric
handmade pottery Late Bronze - Early Iron
Culture/period
Protohistory and Iberian world
Materials
pottery
Technique
handmade
Mint
Production date
-750 / -650
Current location
Exposició permanent
Archaeological site
Necròpolis d’Almenara
Township
Agramunt (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Lleida, Urgell)
Dimensions
175 x 203 mm
Description
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Urn with globular body, strangled neck, divergent convex edge with four rows of wide horizontal grooves inside, crowned by a bevelled lip and a flat base. The outer surface of brown colour with black spots is burnished and the internal brown surface is smoothed. This cremation urn was located in the central part of the No. 2 tumulus in the necropolis of Almenara, during the excavations that were carried out in 1973. It was a flat mound, with an ellipsoidal structure, about 3.50 metres in its maximum diameter, made up of four concentric circles of stones, in the centre of which the urn was found covered by a slab of limestone. It contained remains of the cremation of the corpse; likewise skeletal remains were found inside the tumulus next to the urn.
© Museu comarcal de l'Urgell-Tàrrega
Omeka ID
1215