Burying as in Athens: Funerary periboloi in the Athenian kleruchies

Over the past 20 years important progresses in field surveys, key-studies on the topography of some demes and a substantial number of rescue excavations have completely rewritten the history of the countryside of classical Attica. New findings have deeply renewed the scholarly debate on settlement models, but they have also overturned our knowledge of the funerary landscape. In addition to the nucleated cemeteries of deme villages, there are now countless examples of small family burial plots. In both contexts the so-called periboloi, i.e. the multiple tomb enclosures where different generations of the same family were buried, are the monument largely predominant. There are many reasons to believe that the same funerary patterns characterized also the Athenian colonies outside Attica. The aim of the paper is to focus on some of these Athenian extra-Attica contexts, in particolar Salamis, Samos, Lemnos and Imbros.