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(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
- Title
- (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 / edited by Peter Pfälzner, Herbert Niehr, Ernst Pernicka and Anne Wissing.
- Publication
- Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2012.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- ix, 312 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 30 cm
- Series Statement
- Qatna Studien. Supplementa, 2195-4305 ; Bd. 1
- Uniform Title
- Qaṭna Studien. Supplementa ; Bd. 1.
- Alternative Title
- Re-constructing funerary rituals in the Ancient Near East
- Constructing funerary rituals in the Ancient Near East
- Subject
- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient > Middle East > Congresses
- Social archaeology > Middle East > Congresses
- Death > Middle East > Religious aspects
- Death > Religious aspects
- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient
- Social archaeology
- Bronzezeit
- Bestattungsritus
- Burial > Middle East > History > Congresses
- Excavations (Archaeology) > Middle East > Congresses
- Middle East > Religious life and customs > Congresses
- Middle East
- Alter Orient
- Middle East > Antiquities > Congresses
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Note
- International conference proceedings.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- (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 burial customs / Mathias Lange -- No cult of the dead / Robert Wenning -- Kyrgyz funerals and memorials from an Ethnological perspective / Roland Hardenberg.
- ISBN
- 9783447068208
- 3447068205
- LCCN
- 2012536687
- OCLC
- ocn823576828
- 823576828
- SCSB-1670031
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library