0016 - Small stone pot

This is a typical stone pot, sometimes called mortar or grail, from the Chalcolithic. 25 of them were collected so far in Perdigões, some made of limestone and others made of marble. They are ideotechnic objects (related to the sacred) and come mainly from funerary contexts: 15 from Tomb 1, 7 from Tomb 2, 1 from the large pit with cremated remains (Pit 40). The remaining 2 are from surface collecting and from Pit 87 (the only two not directly related to funerary contexts). This is the one from Pit 40 (made of marble).

(Photo copyright Mafalda Capela / Era Arqueologia)

To know more about ideotechnic objects at Perdigões see here.

0007 - Carving marble

There are several betils from Pit 40 of Perdigões, the one with the deposition of cremated human remains. Most of them are made of marble, a raw material that archaeometric studies suggest to have its origin 30/40km north of Perdigões, in the area of Borba / Vila Viçosa.

This is one of them, decorated with the radial eyes, eyebrows, facial tattoos and, in the back, the zigzag hair. Dated from the middle of the 3rd millennium BC.

(Photo copyright A.C. Valera / Era Arqueologia)