(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 /

(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 /

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Other Authors: Pfälzner, Peter.

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2012.

Series: Qatna Studien. Supplementa ; 1.

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Death > Middle East > Religious aspects.
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient > Middle East > Congresses.
Social archaeology > Middle East > Congresses.
Middle East > Religious life and customs > Congresses.

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Call Number: DS99 .M5 R43 2012

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Table of 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.