"Alas, Short is the Joy of Life!" Elamite Funerary Practice in the First Half of the First Millennium BCE /

"Alas, Short is the Joy of Life!" Elamite Funerary Practice in the First Half of the First Millennium BCE /

Recent scholarship has begun to unveil the culturally rich and dynamic landscape of southwest Iran during the first half of the first millennium BCE (aka the Neo-Elamite period) and its significance as the incubation ground for the Persian Empire. In Profiling Death. Neo-Elamite Mortuary Practices,...

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Main Author: Wicks, Yasmina (Author)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2019.

Series: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 98.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004390805.

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505 0 0 |a 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. 
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