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Thank you Alexias for posting this since i couldnt do it . But there is also another bronze head of Alexander -a new find-just so small - brilliant but i cant remember the publication.

As about the first item ,how surrealistic is the location of the find....Denmark !!!

Tanagra , the cist tomb of an officer-the painted decoration

The polychrome paintings of the cist-shaped tomb of Tanagra ,which are considerd unique and original to this day in terms of their iconography .From their style and the influence of macedonian funerary painting they show,we conclude that they date to the 3rd century BC .That the painter who created ...

After the defeat of Cheronea Beotia was almost under the total control of Macedonia -even in art .. from a Cist -shaped tomb from ancient Tanagra with depicted cuirass probably of iron

As an answer to Alexias : He really was , and perhaps his erotic conquests were also due to this , albeit to a small extent , because as we know , power is the greatest aphrodisiac !

Statue head of Alexander the Great , ,back of the head

Statue head of Alexander the Great

Bust of Demosthenes

Portait of Philip II

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A head of Apollo is the today s find

FROM THE ASH OF MACEDONIAN TUMULUS Whetstone L 13.9.PORTABLE WHETSTONE WITH SUSPENSION HOLEFOR ITS SSUSPENSION FROM THE WARRIOR S GEAR .IT IS AN ELONGATED STONE BLOCK OF SQUARE CROSS-SECTION ,ONE SIDE OF WHICH HAS BEEN STRONGLY HOLLOWED BY THE FRICTION IN THE SHARPENING OF IRON DAGGERS AND SWORDS

FROM THE ASH OF MACEDONIAN TUMULUS Whetstone L 13.9.PORTABLE WHETSTONE WITH SUSPENSION HOLEFOR ITS SSUSPENSION FROM THE WARRIOR S GEAR .IT IS AN ELONGATED STONE BLOCK OF SQUARE CROSS-SECTION ,ONE SIDE OF WHICH HAS BEEN STRONGLY HOLLOWED BY THE FRICTION IN THE SHARPENING OF IRON DAGGERS AND SWORDS

PAIR OF GRAVES,SECOND HALF OF THE 4TH CENTURY THEIR GOLDEN COLOUR IS DUE TOTHE ALLOY USED,WHICH HAS A HIGH TIN CONTENT.THEIR SHAPE FOLLOWS THE ANATOMY OF THE BODY,AND THE SURFACE BEARS THE PLASTIC DETAILS OF THE SHIN MUSCLES

Bronze butt/sauroter with part of an iron spear

MACEDONIAN CIST-SHAPED TOMB .THESPROTIA Cuirass of iron with gold decoratve fittings to the body ,silver -plated helmet,a sword with a bird -shaped handle Date last decades of the 4th or the beginning of the 3rd centuries BC