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[edit]“The Rich Athenian Lady” was a Greek woman who lived around 850 BCE. [1] Her grave is located in Athens [RK1] near the Agora and Acropolis, where archaeologists discovered the burials of several upper-class people.[2] She acquired this title from the 81 grave goods found buried with her, made from materials such as gold, glass, and ivory.[3] Her grave stands out because of these exotic items made from precious material and her burial amphora, which is an example of an Early to Middle Geometric belly-handled amphora.[4] The amphora contained her cremated remains From the charred bones, archaeologists identified parts of her skeleton. Her skull was fairly small, but the presence of her wisdom teeth suggests she was older than 20,[5] while parts of her pubic bone and ribs suggest she died around her 30s.[6] Inside the amphora there were several bones which were not the bones of an adult, although they were originally thought to be animal bones. After further examination, Maria Liston identified the remains as that of a human fetus.[7] This established that she died while pregnant or while giving birth. Early childbirth is a factor that could explain the death of the lady and her fetus.The estimated development of the fetus was around 7 to 8 months before death of the mother occurred.[8]
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[edit]Liston, Maria A., Papadopoulos, John K. “The “Rich Athenian Lady” Was Pregnant: The Anthropology of a Geometric Tomb Reconsidered.” Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 73, no. 1 (2004): 7-38.
Morris, Sarah P., Papadopoulos, John K. “Of Granaries and Games: Egyptian Stowaways in an Athenian Chest.” Hesperia Supplements 33 (2004): 225-242.
Smithson, Evelyn Lord. “The Tomb of a Rich Athenian Lady, CA. 850 B.C.” Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 37, no. 1 (1968): 77-116.
Whitley, James. “Women in Early Iron Age and Archaic Greece: A View From the Grave” In Women in Antiquity: Real Women Across the Ancient World, edited by Stephanie Lynn Budin, Jean Macintosh Turfa, 660-672. London: Routledge, 2016.