She screwed up big-time. After some digging that kept telling me there aren't many Iron Age burial sites in Scotland, I found a doctoral dissertation on the subject. It's called "Christianity and Burial in Late Iron Age Scotland" (I tried posting the link, and of course that triggers spam filters) -- and the author says outright that while there must have been some sort of grave marker, it was ephemeral, there's no firm evidence of what it was, and all contenders for "it" are slabs with markings on them (not vases).
As far as depicting priestesses at work... every instance in antiquity that I can think of or Google shows deities with their attributes. Epona should be shown with her horses because that's how pre-literate people knew it was Epona.
I've been Googling for pre-Raphaelite art that would match that vase description, but no luck yet. I did find a classical Greek vase that was white design on black, with hair picked out in red, but that's the wrong period, too; it clearly isn't meant as genuinely red hair, just as emphasis; everybody is in profile; and it's erotica, not religious.
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Date: 2015-03-03 03:14 am (UTC)As far as depicting priestesses at work... every instance in antiquity that I can think of or Google shows deities with their attributes. Epona should be shown with her horses because that's how pre-literate people knew it was Epona.
I've been Googling for pre-Raphaelite art that would match that vase description, but no luck yet. I did find a classical Greek vase that was white design on black, with hair picked out in red, but that's the wrong period, too; it clearly isn't meant as genuinely red hair, just as emphasis; everybody is in profile; and it's erotica, not religious.