The Eye Injury of King Philip II and the Skeletal Evidence from the Royal Tomb II at Vergina

Author:

Bartsiokas Antonis1

Affiliation:

1. Anaximandrian Institute of Human Evolution, 6 Aeginis Street, GR-166 73 Voula, Greece.

Abstract

The Royal Tomb II was discovered in Vergina, Greece, in 1977. It contained a male skeleton and a rich array of grave goods. Evidence of trauma supposedly in the orbital bones of the skull has been thought to correspond to an eye injury that King Philip II is historically known to have suffered. However, reexamination of the orbital morphology showed no evidence of such pathology. Therefore, the skeleton does not belong to Philip II. New skeletal evidence shows that the skeleton belongs to King Philip III Arrhidaeus. In this case, the tomb may well contain some of the paraphernalia of Alexander the Great.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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4. The archaeological evidence itself now weighs strongly in favor of a post–Philip II identification. In their recent work on the Derveni tombs which date to the late 4th century B.C. P. Themelis and J. Touratsoglou [ The Derveni Tombs (Publication 59 TAPA Athens Greece 1997)] describe pottery similar to that in Tomb II at Vergina thus moving the date of Vergina Royal Tomb II down to the generation after the death of Philip II. See also

5. Palagia O., Minerva 9, 25 (1998);

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