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Names: Lavan, Luke, editor.
Title: Burial and memorial in late antiquity set / managing editor, Luke Lavan.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024. | Series: Late antique archaeology, 1570-6893 ; vol. 13 | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Contents: v. 1. Thematic perspectives—v. 2. Regional perspectives. | Summary: “Burial and Memorial explores funerary and commemorative archaeology, A.D. 284-650, across the late antique world, from Catalonia to Cappadocia. The first volume includes an overview of research, and papers exploring bioarchaeology, mortuary rituals, mausolea, and funerary landscapes. It considers the sacralisation of tombs, movements of relics, and the political significance of cemeteries. The fate of statue monuments is explored, as memorials for individuals. Authors also compare the spoliation or preservation of tombs to other buildings, and, finally, how the city itself, with its monuments, served as a place of collective memory, where meanings were long maintained. The second volume includes papers exploring all aspects of funerary archaeology, from scientific samples in graves, to grave goods and tomb robbing and a bibliographic essay. It brings into focus neglected regions not usually considered by funerary archaeologists in NW Europe, such as the Levant, where burial archaeology is rich in grave good, to Sicily and Sardinia, where post-mortem offerings and burial manipulations are well-attested. We also hear from excavations in Britain, from Canterbury and London, and see astonishing fruits from the application of science to graves recently excavated in Trier”—Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2023059384 (print) | LCCN 2023059385 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004687950 (v. 1 ; cloth) | ISBN 9789004687967 (v. 2 ; hardback) | ISBN 9789004688162 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004687981 (v. 1 ; ebook) | ISBN 9789004687974 (v. 2 ; ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient. | Burial. | Excavations (Archaeology)
Classification: LCC GT3170 .B86 2024 (print) | LCC GT3170 (ebook) | DDC 393/.930936—dc23/eng/20240202
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023059384
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023059385
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ISSN 1570-6893
ISBN 978-90-04-68795-0 (hardback, volume 1)
ISBN 978-90-04-68796-7 (hardback, volume 2)
ISBN 978-90-04-68816-2 (hardback, set)
ISBN 978-90-04-68798-1 (e-book, volume 1)
ISBN 978-90-04-68797-4 (e-book, volume 2)
DOI 10.1163/9789004687981
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