Tomb of Sannite Woman Found Near Pompeii

Calling the Reich Lab...Hello?

Nice, fresh, uncontaminated, or minimally uncontaminated, ancient dna from 4th century BC Sannite territory.

This is the Discovery News piece about it:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/3700-150921-pompeii-samnite-tomb

The tomb was intact, and in addition to amphorae of cosmetics, wine and food contains the skeleton of a woman. I know, I know, a man might have been better. They are looking for other tombs in the area, although I don't know how successful they'll be; the bombed the area to smithereens during the war.

The local Italian press is full of it. This article has lots of pictures
http://napoli.repubblica.it/cronaca...23372033/?refresh_ce#gallery-slider=123371584

These pictures have already made it to google :

Angela said:

Calling the Reich Lab...Hello?

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http://genetics.med.harvard.edu/reich/Reich_Lab/Contact.html

Angela said:

Calling the Reich Lab...Hello?

Nice, fresh, uncontaminated, or minimally uncontaminated, ancient dna from 4th century BC Sannite territory.

This is the Discovery News piece about it:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/3700-150921-pompeii-samnite-tomb

The tomb was intact, and in addition to amphorae of cosmetics, wine and food contains the skeleton of a woman. I know, I know, a man might have been better. They are looking for other tombs in the area, although I don't know how successful they'll be; the bombed the area to smithereens during the war.

The local Italian press is full of it. This article has lots of pictures
http://napoli.repubblica.it/cronaca...23372033/?refresh_ce#gallery-slider=123371584

These pictures have already made it to google :

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Is that all Greek pottery? I suppose it is. That Anaean legend may be a good example of how some legends still may have some valid truth at their core.

epoch said:

Is that all Greek pottery? I suppose it is. That Anaean legend may be a good example of how some legends still may have some valid truth at their core.

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I'm not sure about the pottery. I'll have to look at my old books.

Anyway, the Samnites lived right next door to Greek colonies.

Thats what I thought too. The pottery looks very Greek.

The Samnites, basically a pastoral people, had some pottery production of their own, but it was limited.
https://books.google.com/books?id=-...he Samnites produce their own pottery&f=false

It looks to me as if the amphorae might be Campanian painted ware (there were big production centers there at the time and a lot of trade between these neighboring groups), but authenticating pottery is above my pay grade.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campanian_vase_painting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Italian_ancient_Greek_pottery
"South Italian is a designation for ancient Greek pottery fabricated in Magna Graecia largely during the 4th century BC. The fact that Greek Southern Italy produced its own red figure pottery as early as the end of the 5th century B.C. was first established by Adolf Furtwaengler in 1893 (A.D. Trendall)"

"The interchange of iconography, techniques, and ideas between the major pottery centers of the Hellenistic Period was formidable. One can see the influences of Corinth, Athens, Etruria, and cross pollination throughout the fabrics of Magna Graecia. There are five regions which produced South Italian ware: Apulia, Lucania, Paestum, Campania, and Sicily. These regions, in turn, had various workshops within them.

• Apulian ware was almost all made in various workshops in Taras (Taranto).
• Lucanian ware was made in Heraklea and Metaponto.
• Paestan ware was all made in Poseidonia (Paestum).
• Campanian ware was made in Capua and Kyme (Cumae).
• Sicilian ware was made in Syracuse and Lipari."

Usually in greek pottery, black figures on pots means early iron-age and associated with western Greeks ( corinthians )
red figures on pots are usually southern-italian or etruscan or even aegean islands and they began about 500BC

these pots found are all red figures and would not be associated with epirus/albania/corinthians etc.

@Angela,

Are you saying someone got DNA from the remains?

Fire Haired14 said:

@Angela,

Are you saying someone got DNA from the remains?

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No, Fire-Haired, I was saying that some group like the Reich Lab should test the skeleton.

It seems a red-figure pottery typical of Attica. "The most important areas of production, apart from Attica, were in Southern Italy (Magna Graecia). The style was also adopted in other parts of Greece. Etruria became an important centre of production outside the Greek World."