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© Museu Comarcal de l'Urgell-Tàrrega
Omeka ID 1215
Necròpolis d’Almenara
Protohistory and Iberian world

cinerary urn

MCUT 3112

Object type
cremation urn
Production date
-750 / -650
Fabric
handmade pottery Late Bronze - Early Iron
Museum
Museu Comarcal de l'Urgell-Tàrrega
Culture
Protohistory and Iberian world
Discovery location
Necròpolis d’Almenara
Materials
pottery
Township
Agramunt (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Lleida, Urgell)
Technique
handmade
Where is it?
Exposició permanent
Dimensions
175 x 203 mm
Description
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.

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