02890nam 2200385 450 991079464020332120220531221733.01-78491-384-7(CKB)4100000012027250(MiAaPQ)EBC6728822(Au-PeEL)EBL6728822(EXLCZ)99410000001202725020220531d2016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierA dignified passage through the gates of Hades the burial custom of cremation and the Warrior Order of Ancient Eleutherna /Anagnostis P. AgelarakisOxford, England :Archaeopress Publishing Limited,[2016]©20161 online resource (22 pages)Cover -- Copyright Information -- Contents -- List of Figures, Tables and Graphs -- A Dignified Passage through the Gates of Hades: The Burial Custom of Cremation and the Warrior Order of Ancient Eleutherna -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Anthropological Insights on Monumental Tomb A1K1 -- The warrior order of ancient Eleutherna -- Deciphering conferred funerary whispers -- Standing upright in Hades -- Acknowledgements -- Epilogue -- Graph 1: A1K1: Sex Sub-Groups of 141 Cremated Homini Retrieved from 135 Vase Contexts -- Figure 1: Mourning scene around a fallen warrior, placed with his panoply on a supine and extended position on the pyre structure, with provisions for his katábasis to Hades -- Figure 2: Anatomically reconstructed cremains of a fallen warrior, comprising the distal third of his humerus, the region of the elbow joint and the proximal third of the ulna: right side-dorsal view. -- Graph 2: A1K1: Abridged Age Sub-Groups of 141 Cremated Homini Retrieved from 135 Vase Contexts -- Table 1 -- Figure 3: A congregation of Eleuthernians in the Asphodel Meadows of Hades. -- Table 2 -- Table 3 -- Figure 4: A schematic reconstruction of the burial custom of placing warrior cremains into funerary vases, to anatomically articulate a synthesis of the "second body" -- Figure 4: An Eleuthernian warrior at the threshold of crossing the gates of Hades -- Back Cover.Archaeological excavations at the Eleuthernian burial ground of Orthi Petra yielded a remarkable collection of jar burials in complex internal tomb stratification, containing cremated human bones accompanied by a most noteworthy assembly of burial artifacts of exquisite wealth.Excavations (Archaeology)GreeceEleutherna (Extinct city)Excavations (Archaeology)393.93093918Agelarakis Anagnostis P.1956-781228MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910794640203321A dignified passage through the gates of Hades3715431UNINA