The Golden Larnax of Philip II of Macedon (Vergina Collection, National Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki)
Created
4th century BC
Discovered
1977-1978 Vergina, Central Macedonia, Greece
The Golden Larnax is a 4th-century BC closed coffin discovered in the Macedonian Royal tombs at Vergina in Greece. It has been proposed that it contained the remains of King Philip II of Macedon.
The GoldenLarnax is a 4th-century BC closed coffin discovered in the Macedonian Royal tombs at Vergina in Greece. It has been proposed that it contained...
A larnax (plural: larnakes; Ancient Greek: λάρναξ, lárnaks, plural: λάρνακες, lárnakes) is a type of small closed coffin, box or "ash-chest" often used...
was the GoldenLarnax made of 24-carat gold and weighing 11 kilograms (24 lb), embossed with the Vergina Sun symbol. Inside the goldenlarnax the bones...
dynasty of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia. There it was depicted on a goldenlarnax found in a 4th-century BC royal tomb belonging to either Philip II or...
carat gold. Vergina, Greece. The golden wreath of Philip II found inside the goldenlarnax. It weighs 717 grams. Golden jewelry to be worn as hair ornaments...
period between the 6th and 2nd centuries BC and also depicted in the goldenLarnax of Philip II, discovered in the 1970s, is regarded by some as the symbol...
II of Macedon at the Museum of the Royal Tombs in Vergina The goldenlarnax and the golden grave crown of Philip The gilded silver diadem of Philip II,...
Press. ISBN 0-19-506628-6. Theodossiev, Nikola (May 2000). "The Dead with Golden Faces. II Other Evidence and Connections". Oxford Journal of Archaeology...
Macedon. It was unplundered and contained many valuable items, such as a goldenlarnax. The finds from this tomb were later included in the travelling exhibit...
the tomb contained a golden box with the bones of a woman in her twenties, and the inner chamber contained a gold box with a golden crown and the bones...
The goldenlarnax that was buried with Philip II of Macedon in his tomb at Vergina (Aigai), featuring the Vergina Sun design, the royal symbol of the...
territorial claim to the northern Greek region of Macedonia, where the goldenlarnax containing the symbol was unearthed in 1977 during excavations in Vergina...
tomb was unopened and contained many invaluable items, such as the GoldenLarnax. Athanasios Angelopoulos, academic, professor of Pastoral Theology Kostas...
including two golden Persian dareikoi An urn from the Archaic period inscribed with letters from a Thessalian alphabet Metal larnax guarded by a dog...
Vergina Sun is a 16-ray star covering what appears to be the royal burial larnax of Philip II of Macedon, discovered in Vergina, Greece, and it is believed...
L. Vance (1991), "The origin and iconography of the Late Minoan painted larnax", Hesperia, 60(3): 285–307; JSTOR 148065. Willetts, R. F., 1976 (1995 edition)...
cannot justify nonhuman animals' pain. Hunting of deer and ibex, Minoan larnax, prepalatial period Hunting in the papyrus thicket, mural from a tomb in...
her father Cadmus. Their sentence was to be put into a chest or a box (larnax) and cast in the sea. Luckily, the casket they were in washed up by the...
daughter was Danaë. Her golden liaison with Zeus, the birth of Perseus, and mother and son's involuntary exile in the larnax are quickly recounted, and...
destroyed by fire in the Indian Ocean. Her crew were rescued by the barque Larnax ( United Kingdom). Bellcarrigg was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham...
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