(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 |
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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
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Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Wiesbaden :
Harrassowitz,
2012.
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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