Profiling death : neo-Elamite mortuary practices, afterlife beliefs, and entanglements with ancestors
| 1. Verfasser: |
Wicks, Yasmina
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Leiden : Boston.
Brill,
[2019]
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| Umfang/Format: |
1 online resource (xxiii, 373 pages) : illustrations. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Culture and history of the ancient Near East
v. 98 |
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| Parallelausgabe: |
ISSN: 9789004388109 Druck-Ausgabe, Wicks, Yasmina, Profiling death (Erscheint auch als) | ISSN: 9789004388109 |
| Online Zugang: |
Available online |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Front Matter
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Illustrations
- Alas, Short is the Joy of Life! Why Study Elamite Mortuary Practices?
- The Backdrop: Elam in the First Millennium
- Neo-Elamite Geography, Chronology, History, and the Textual and Iconographic Evidence Used in this Book
- The Mortuary Evidence
- The Burial Evidence
- Burial Location, Typology, Orientation and Body Arrangement
- The Assemblages
- Neo-Elamite Social Identities: Portraits in Graves
- Social Identity in the Mortuary Record
- Combining Archaeology and Text: Death, Afterlife and the Neo-Elamite Funeral
- “Alas, Short is the Joy of Life”: Death and the Afterlife through an Elamite Lens
- Imagining the Neo-Elamite Funeral from Archaeology and Texts
- Concluding Note: the Neo-Elamite Period at the Juncture of Old and New
- Back Matter
- Table of Neo-Elamite Burials
- Bibliography
- Index.
