Who was buried with Nestor’s Cup? Macroscopic and microscopic analyses of the cremated remains from Tomb 168 (second half of the 8^th century BCE, Pithekoussai, Ischia Island, Italy)

• Melania Gigante ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: melania.gigante@unipd.it

  Affiliation Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4028-4012

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• Alessia Nava,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations DANTE-Diet and Ancient Technology Laboratory, Department of Maxilla-Facial Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, Skeletal Biology Research Centre, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6319-0425

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• Robert R. Paine,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

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• Ivana Fiore,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

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• Francesca Alhaique,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bioarchaeology Service, Museum of Civilizations, Rome, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4085-1523

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• Carmen Mariarosaria Esposito,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

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• Alessandra Sperduti,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Bioarchaeology Service, Museum of Civilizations, Rome, Italy, Department of Asia Africa and Mediterranean, University of Naples ‘L’ Orientale’, Naples, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9338-5891

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• Jacopo Bonetto,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6015-9898

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• Teresa Elena Cinquantaquattro,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Asia Africa and Mediterranean, University of Naples ‘L’ Orientale’, Naples, Italy, Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per l’area metropolitana di Napoli, Naples, Italy

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• Bruno d’Agostino,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Asia Africa and Mediterranean, University of Naples ‘L’ Orientale’, Naples, Italy

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• Luca Bondioli

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Padua, Padua, Italy, Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna, Alma Mater Studiorum, Ravenna, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8511-7667

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