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Author Jong, Lidewijde de, author.

Title The archaeology of death in Roman Syria : burial, commemoration, and empire / Lidewijde de Jong
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, [2017]
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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
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
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Subject Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Syria
Burial -- Syria
Human remains (Archaeology) -- Syria
Death.
Death
deaths.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Death & Dying.
Burial
Classical antiquities
Death
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Human remains (Archaeology)
SUBJECT Syria -- Antiquities, Roman
Subject Syria
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781108224222
1108224229