LEADER 03250oam 2200517I 450 001 9910511748903321 005 20210112184335.0 010 $a90-04-39177-0 010 $a90-04-38810-9 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004391772 035 $a(CKB)4910000000122204 035 $a(OCoLC)1066199719 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004391772 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5739995 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5739995 035 $a(OCoLC)1090984585 035 $a(EXLCZ)994910000000122204 100 $a20181126d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun####uuuua 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aProfiling death $eNeo-Elamite Mortuary Practices, Afterlife Beliefs, and Entanglements with Ancestors /$fYasmina Wicks 210 1$aLeiden, Boston :$cBRILL,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource 225 0 $aCulture and History of the Ancient Near East ;$vv. 98 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFront 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. 330 $aRecent scholarship has begun to unveil the culturally rich and dynamic landscape of southwest Iran during the first half of the first millennium BCE (aka the Neo-Elamite period) and its significance as the incubation ground for the Persian Empire. In Profiling Death. Neo-Elamite Mortuary Practices, Afterlife Beliefs, and Entanglements with Ancestors , Yasmina Wicks continues the investigation of this critical epoch from the perspective of the mortuary record, bringing forth fascinating clues as to the ritual practices, beliefs, social structures and individual identities of Elam?s lowland and highland inhabitants. Enmeshed with its neighbours, yet in many ways culturally distinct, Elam receives its due treatment here as a core component of the ancient Near East. 410 0$aCulture and History of the Ancient Near East$v98. 606 $aHISTORY / Ancient / General 606 $aCavalry$yHistory$dTo 1500 606 $aCavalry 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHISTORY / Ancient / General. 615 0$aCavalry 615 0$aCavalry. 676 $a939.4 700 $aWicks$b Yasmina$0901198 801 0$bNL-LeKB 801 1$bNL-LeKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910511748903321 996 $aProfiling death$92550463 997 $aUNINA