A dignified passage through the gates of Hades : the burial custom of cremation and the Warrior Order of Ancient Eleutherna / / Anagnostis P. Agelarakis
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Agelarakis Anagnostis P. <1956->
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| Titolo: |
A dignified passage through the gates of Hades : the burial custom of cremation and the Warrior Order of Ancient Eleutherna / / Anagnostis P. Agelarakis
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford, England : , : Archaeopress Publishing Limited, , [2016] |
| ©2016 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (22 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 393.93093918 |
| Soggetto topico: | Excavations (Archaeology) - Greece - Eleutherna (Extinct city) |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A dignified passage through the gates of Hades |
| ISBN: | 1-78491-384-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910810283403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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