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Funerary Rituals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Ancient Egyptian rituals for the mummification, burial, and commemoration of the dead as performed in the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods are attested by textual sources and visual arts, as well as by the evidence of mummified bodies. The underlying religious beliefs about death and the afterlife are basically the same as those of the Dynastic period. This
Riggs, Christina
core   +4 more sources

Small Houses of the Dead: A Model of Collective Funerary Activity in the Chalcolithic Tombs of Southwestern Iberia. La Orden-Seminario Site (Huelva, Spain)

open access: yesOpen Archaeology, 2023
This study analyses the funerary activity of small collective tombs with a limited number of individuals in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula during the Copper Age.
José Antonio Linares-Catela   +1 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Adana Müzesi’nden Cenaze Takıları ve Aplikler / Funeral Jewelry and Appliques from the Adana Museum

open access: yesArkhaia Anatolika, 2021
The burial traditions that began as a special farewell ceremony in the Sanidar Cave were shaped around the thought that the end was actually a beginning and thusly retained their importance in both pagan and theistic religions.
Çilem UYGUN
doaj   +1 more source

A Third Intermediate Period openwork piece of funerary equipmentfrom the Chapel of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari [PDF]

open access: yesPolish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2016
A set of wooden figures representing female deities with painted fronts and flat backswas identified in the archaeological material coming from recent excavations in the Chapel ofHatshepsut.
Anastasiia Stupko-Lubczyńska
doaj   +1 more source

Céramique inédite d’époque punique de Moknine et de Smirat (Tunisie)

open access: yesAntiquités Africaines, 2023
The Punic presence in Moknine and Smirat is attested exclusively by funerary remains. Rescue excavations between 1987 and 2001 led to the recovery of 38 ceramic vessels in two hypogeum tombs at Moknine and three at Smirat.
Yamen Sghaïer
doaj   +1 more source

Le mobilier funéraire exceptionnel d’une sépulture d’enfant du ier siècle apr. J.-C. à proximité du chef-lieu de la cité arverne

open access: yesPallas, 2022
During a commercial excavation on the site of the Clermont-Ferrand airport at the end of 2020, near the Roman Arverni capital of Augustonemetum, a childs’ grave was unearthed. The grave is thought to have been located a few metres away from a large Roman
Ivy Thomson   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Examining the Ritual Landscape of Bronze Age Crete through the Lens of Archaeobotany

open access: yesReligions, 2022
This paper investigates plant remains at three ritual sites from Bronze Age Crete: Kophinas, Knossos Anetaki and Petras. To date, ritual contexts on the island have been little investigated from an archaeobotanical standpoint.
Carly Henkel, Evi Margaritis
doaj   +1 more source

Des coupelles pour les morts en gaule romaine ?

open access: yesRevue Archéologique de l’Est, 2022
A first set of studies presented at the SFECAG colloquium in Autun in 2016 provided an opportunity to present several papers on an assemblage of cups whose use, always in connection with the practice of cremation, is exclusively funerary.
Anne Ahü-Delor   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Managing funerary systems in the pandemic: lessons learned and an application of a scenario simulation in São Paulo City, Brazil [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 2021
Purpose – This study, a practice forum article, aims to presents the lessons learned and the development of a discrete event simulation model to support the funerary system management of São Paulo City, Brazil, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Irineu de Brito Jr   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tressed for Death in Early Anglo-Saxon England

open access: yesInternet Archaeology, 2016
A study of hair ornament and styling for funerary rites in Early Anglo-Saxon England. Practices varied between cemeteries and across England in terms of the frequency and character of grooming implements' deposition with the cremated dead.
Howard Williams
doaj   +1 more source

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