The “Rich Athenian Lady” Was Pregnant
The Anthropology of a Geometric Tomb Reconsidered
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9858675 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria A Liston (0000-0001-8368-5751, corresponding author), John K Papadopoulos (0000-0003-2481-0246) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 7-38 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hesperia The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-098X • E-ISSN: 1553-5622 |
| Publisher | American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2972/hesp.2004.73.1.7 |
| OpenAlex | W2003398854 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 64 |
Recent reexamination of the cremated remains in the celebrated tomb of the "rich Athenian lady" brought to light the presence of a fetus four to eight weeks short of full term and established that the adult female died during pregnancy or premature childbirth. The physical anthropology of mother and child is reviewed and a facial reconstruction of the deceased woman presented. Other examples of pregnancy and death in the Greek world are discussed. The discovery of a fetus together with the adult female fundamentally changes the interpretation of this tomb and highlights the importance of skeletal evidence in the study of demography and social structure
Art · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Issues · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · History · Medicine
Athens, Prehistoric and Early Iron Age
The Bioarchaeology of Children
Narratives on child and childhood in Greek city-states
Funerary Variability in Late Eighth-Century B.C.E. Attica (Late Geometric II)
The bronze headbands of prehistoric Lofkënd and their Aegean and Balkan connections
Postmortem Care of Subadults from the Neo-Punic Tophet at Zitha, Tunisia
House Societies in the Ancient Mediterranean (2000–500 BC)
Reinterpreting the Diachronic Variations in the Numbers of Burials Known from Early Iron Age Athens
Más allá de los estereotipos
Architecture and storage in Mediterranean environments
A Fourth-Century Tomb at Argos
Celebrating 75 Years of Hesperia
The obstetric dilemma
Faces in the museum
The Dipylon Mistress
The invention of Athens
Geschichte der griechischen Religion
The Rites of Passage
Identification of pathological conditions in human skeletal remains
Bone Development
Mortuary Practices and the Study of Prehistoric Social Systems
Determination of Age from the Sternal Rib in White Females
Greek burial customs
Celebrations of Death
Death and the Ancestors
Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity
Ceramicus Redivivus
Mortuary Practices
Social Dimensions of Mortuary Practices in a Mesolithic Population from Wadi Haifa, Sudan
The Tomb of a Rich Athenian Lady, CA. 850 B.C
Differentiated treatment of deviancy at death as revealed in anthropological and archeological material
On Maternal and Infant Mortality 1900-1960
"Reading" Greek Death
Sepulturae Intra Urbem
A Fifth Century Hieron Southwest of the Athenian Agora
A Geometric House and a Proto-Attic Votive Deposit
The Protogeometric Cemetery at Nea Ionia, 1949
Marriage Boiotian Style
A Geometric Cemetery on the Areopagus
The Cultural Biography of a Cycladic Geometric Amphora
The Campaign of 1932
The Rich Lady of the Areiopagos and Her Contemporaries
Submycenaean Studies. Examination of Finds from Mainland Greece with a Chapter on Attic Protogeometric Graves
The Black and White Style
The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition
A Social Outcast in Early Iron Age Athens
Activity in the Athenian Agora
Miasma
A Curse in a Chytridion
Gender and hierarchy in early Athens [The strange case of the disappearance of the rich female grave]
Applications Of Facial Sculpturing To The Biological Study Of An Archaeological population
Mortality of pregnant females in Arikara villages
The estimation of adult stature from metacarpal bone length
Chronological metamorphosis of the auricular surface of the ilium
Parturition and pelvic changes
Distortion of the pubic symphyseal surface in females and its effect on age determination
A method for aging the female Os pubis
Analysis of dorsal pitting in the Os pubis in an extensive sample of modern American females
The bases of paleodemography
Skeletal Material from Attica
The Archaeology of Ancestors
Birth, Death, and Motherhood in Classical Greece
Activities in the Athenian Agora
The Iconography of Mourning in Athenian Art
The Rites of Passage
Ritual
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2025 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |