"grave good" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: grave goods [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} grave good (plural grave goods)
  1. singular of grave goods Tags: form-of, singular Form of: grave goods
    Sense id: en-grave_good-en-noun-SuxUdu4F Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "text": "The second was inscribed on a late geometric skyphos (drinking-cup) made on Rhodes which was also a grave-good (in the grave of a boy twelve to fourteen years old [Buchner and Ridgway , ]) in the necropolis of Pithecusae (today's island of Ischia), a Euboean colony in the Gulf of Naples (Fig. 38).",
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          "ref": "2013, Penny Bickle, Alasdair Whittle, The First Farmers of Central Europe",
          "text": "In Basse–Alsace and Baden-Württemberg, perhaps the 'lump' form was favoured as it fitted better with the reduced expectation of bodily adornment in the grave, but still allowed ochre to be used as a grave good, though this may not have been the case everywhere.",
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          "ref": "2015, Lisa Trentin, The Hunchback in Hellenistic and Roman Art",
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