"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)

Format: eBook

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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HISTORY / Ancient / General.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.