Description |
1 online resource |
Contents |
Cover; Half title; Frontispiece; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables and Charts; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Locating the Dead: Space, Landscape, and Cemetery Organization; 2 The Tomb: Architecture and Decoration; 3 Gifts for the Dead: Function and Distribution of Grave Goods; 4 The Dead: Bones, Portraits, and Epitaphs; 5 Funerary Beliefs: Differentiation, Continuity, and Change in Ritual; 6 The Global and the Local: Romanization, Globalization, and the Syrian Cemetery; Postscript; Appendix 1. Sites; Appendix 2. Tomb Types |
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List of Online AppendicesBibliography; Index |
Summary |
This book sheds new light on funerary customs in Roman Syria, offering a novel way of understanding its provincial culture |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Vendor-supplied metadata |
Subject |
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Syria
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Burial -- Syria
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Human remains (Archaeology) -- Syria
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Death.
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Death
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deaths.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Death & Dying.
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Burial
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Classical antiquities
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Death
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Funeral rites and ceremonies
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Human remains (Archaeology)
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SUBJECT |
Syria -- Antiquities, Roman
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Subject |
Syria
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781108224222 |
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1108224229 |
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