Zigzag art in ancient tombs in Greece

Archaeologists working in Greece discovered an ancient tomb dating back to about 2,800 years, with pottery pots with zigzag and zigzag decoration.

This tomb dates back to 800 BC, at a time when Corinth emerged as a great power and the Greeks were above the Mediterranean coast.

A 2,800-year-old tomb was discovered in the ancient city of Corinth, Greece.(Photo: Courtesy)

The main tomb consists of a tunnel and burial pit. The burial pit has a limestone coffin of 1.76 meters long, 0.86 meters wide and 0.63 meters high. When archaeologists opened the lid of the coffin, a skeleton remains inside, leaving only the remains of the bone, Livesicence reported.

The researchers also found some ceramic pots next to the coffin. Besides, the tomb has a hole sealed with a limestone slab, which contains 13 ceramic pots.

'The wealth of the people living here shows through the coffin and the large number of pots. In the jars, there were two vessels imported from Athens, the rest were produced in Corinth, " the researchers said in the Hesperia magazine.

Ceramic vase consists of decorative motifs with a variety of designs, including meandering zigzag lines that look like a maze.This zigzag art style was very popular at the time, archeologists often referred to this as the "geometric" period of Greece .

A vase inside a grave in Greece.(Photo: Courtesy)

Several centuries later, in Roman times, the tomb was almost destroyed after a building wall next to it. When archaeologists unearthed the wall, they found a column of limestone that seriously affected the grave.

'A group of authorities called Bacchiadae came to power in Corinth in 747 BC (a few decades after the tomb was built), they helped Corinth increase trade and develop wealth. Corinth has a favorable geographical position that has become the most important trading center of the time in Greece, widely traded ceramics throughout the Mediterranean Sea ', Elke Stein-Hölkeskamp from Munster University, Germany writes in A Companion to Archaic Greece, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.