"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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التنسيق: كتاب الكتروني
اللغة: English
منشور في:
Leiden, Boston :
BRILL,
2019.
سلاسل:
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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الوسوم: إضافة وسم
رقم الطلب: DS41
- 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.