Author: A. Bertaiola

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The necropolis discovered in locality Buffa is one of the three major burial sites of the Greek apoikia of Selinus (Sicily, TP). Located northeast of the ancient settlement, this cemetery underwent extensive excavation by the Superintendency between 1963 and 1967, yielding more than one thousand graves spanning from the end of the 7th to the end of the 5th century BCE. Burial contexts were fully published by Meola between 1996 and 1998. Remarkably, from the reconstruction of ritual practices, two data points stand out: the high percentage of secondary cremations and the relatively low number of child interments, both lacking parallels in the burial customs of Greek Sicily. This paper proposes a reassessment of these data through a re-examination of contextual information.