Profiling death, Neo-Elamite mortuary practices, afterlife beliefs, and entanglements with ancestors / / Yasmina Wicks
| Profiling death, Neo-Elamite mortuary practices, afterlife beliefs, and entanglements with ancestors / / Yasmina Wicks |
| Autore | Wicks Yasmina |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Brill, , [2019] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina | 393.0955 |
| Collana | Culture and History of the Ancient Near East |
| Soggetto topico |
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient - Iran
Elymaeans - Iran |
| ISBN |
90-04-39177-0
90-04-38810-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795137403321 |
Wicks Yasmina
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| Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Brill, , [2019] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Profiling death, Neo-Elamite mortuary practices, afterlife beliefs, and entanglements with ancestors / / Yasmina Wicks
| Profiling death, Neo-Elamite mortuary practices, afterlife beliefs, and entanglements with ancestors / / Yasmina Wicks |
| Autore | Wicks Yasmina |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Brill, , [2019] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina | 393.0955 |
| Collana | Culture and History of the Ancient Near East |
| Soggetto topico |
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient - Iran
Elymaeans - Iran |
| ISBN |
90-04-39177-0
90-04-38810-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819256703321 |
Wicks Yasmina
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| Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : Brill, , [2019] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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