(Re-)Constructing funerary rituals in the ancient Near East : proceedings of the first international symposium of the Tübingen Post-Graduate School "Symbols of the Dead" in May 2009

Parallelsachtitel: Re-constructing funerary rituals in the ancient Near East
Körperschaft: Universität Tübingen. Post-Graduate School "Symbols of the Dead" Corporation
International Symposium of the Tübingen Post-Graduate School "Symbols of the Dead"
Weitere Verfasser: Pfälzner, Peter
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2012.
Umfang/Format: ix, 312 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, plans ; 31 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Qaṭna Studien. Supplementa ; Bd. 1
Schlagworte:
Inhaltsangabe:
  • (Re-)constructing funerary rituals in the ancient Near East : a reflecting review / Marlies Heinz
  • Cult of the ancestors and funerary practices at Elba / Alfonso Archi
  • A potential reconstruction of funerary rituals in the monument mortuary complex at Tell Ahmar / Li Sang
  • An age of heros? : some thoughts on early bronze age funerary customs in Northern Mesopotamia / Babara Helwing
  • Era of living dead : funerary praxis and symbol in the third millennium BC Syria / Glenn M. Schwartz
  • Funerary practices from the end of the early to the middle bronze age in Northwestern Syria : the Middle Euphrates valley / Candida Felli
  • Ritual aspects of Middle Bronze Age burial practices in the Hurrian city of Urkesh / Anne Wissing
  • Funerary rites and cult of the ancestors during the Amorite period : the evidence of the Royal Archives of Mari / Antoine Jacquet
  • Thanatography and the contextualization of ritual activities : preliminary observations on mortuary ritual practice at Middle Bronze Age Jericho / Panayiotis Andreou
  • Two stelae mentioning mortuary offerings from Ugarit (KTU 6.13 and 6.14) / Herbert Niehr
  • Food and libation offerings for the royal dead in Ugarit / Sarah Lange
  • Urban mortuary practices in Enkomi and Ugarit in the Second Millennium BC / Priscilla Keswani
  • How did they bury the kings of Qatna? / Peter Pfälzner
  • Calcite-alabaster as grave goods : terminology and sources / Tina Köster
  • How to become an ancestor : some thoughts / Katharina Teinz
  • "Asiatics will not lay you to rest" : Egyptian funerary ritual and the question of mutual influence / Andrea Kucharek
  • The spatial order in the tomb buildings of the Middle Elamite period / Behzad Mofidi-Nasrabadi
  • Concerning the dead : how to bury an Assyrian king? : possibilities and limits of the archeological and written evidence in the second and first millennium BC / Steven Lundström
  • The role of some stelae in Phoenician b