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Dressing the dead in classical antiquity / edited by Maureen Carroll and John Peter Wild.

Title: Dressing the dead in classical antiquity / edited by Maureen Carroll and John Peter Wild.
Publication: Stroud, Gloucestershire : Amberley Pub., 2012.

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159 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, charts; 25 cm.

Summary

This volume presents the results of new and ground-breaking research in the UK and abroad on clothing and textiles in the context of death and burial in Classical Antiquity, from the fifth century BC to the fifth century AD.

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The textile archaeology of Roman burials: Eyes Wide Shut / John Peter Wild -- Eleusinian adornment? Demeter and the Bolshaia Bliznitsa burials / Jane Rempel -- Eternal comfort: funerary textiles in late Classical and Hellenistic Greece / Dimitra Andrianou -- Minor burial textiles and religious affiliation: an archaeological case study from Roman Egypt / Kristin H. South -- Recovering Contexts: the Roman mummies excavated by The Metropolitan Museum of Art at Dahshur, Egypt / Emilia Cortes -- Dressing the dead in Palmyra in the second and third centuries AD / Annemarie Stauffer -- Dressed to impress: the tomb sculpture of Ghirza in Tripolitania / Lucy Audley-Miller -- Dressing the dead in the city of Rome: burial customs according to textiles / Annette Paetz gen. Schieck -- The Roman child clothed in death / Maureen Carroll -- Death and the Maiden: reprising the burials of Roman girls and young women / Mary Harlow

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9781445603001 (hbk.)
1445603004 (hbk.)

OCLC

816032488
SCSB-11581735

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Harvard Library