Digital Object 2169
Description:
EU128. Deposit of materials located on the wooden lid of the funerary chamber located in the lower vessel of tomb T2 at its SW edge. It has an inclination of 30º with SW-NE orientation, product of the collapse of the lid. The matrix of the envelope is clayey, brown with reddish tones and has a high sand content. This unit contains three pectorals, four bracelets and some gold sheets, all gold and miniature. It also contains shell beads, tubular beads made from bird radii, small discoidal beads made from green stones, among other sumptuous materials. We believe it is the remains of the burial of a small child (whose remains have disappeared) or a replacement effigy representing a child made of some kind of perishable material. It could have been placed inside the tomb 1) in the burial phase when the lid of the burial chamber was placed, 2) at the time the EU131 and EU107 offering was made (after the collapse of the lid of the burial chamber) or shortly thereafter.
Excavation campaign:
2011
Record type:
Stratigraphic unit register
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Archaeological site:
El Caño
Operation:
Operation 1
Stratigraphic group:
Tomb 2
Stratigraphic unit type:
Interment-offering
Stratigraphic unit (characteristics):
128
Digital Object 2169