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The funerary monuments of Campanian Augustales: a preliminary study [PDF]

Studia Antiquitatis et Medii Aevi Incohantis, 2021
The article presents the results of a preliminary study on funerary monuments of Campanian Augustales. The author focused on the material objects (meaning objects upon which the text was inscribed and preserved tombs) – their typology, the material from ...
Wojciech Pietruszka
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Rzeźba nagrobna na Mazowszu w XVI wieku/Funerary Sculpture in Sixteenth-Century Mazovia [PDF]

, 2021
The publication devoted to the 16th-century funerary sculpture in Mazovia, based both on the field inventory and the wide archival query, including iconographic collections.
Hajduk, Olga M.
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Reflection, Ritual, and Memory in the Late Roman Painted Hypogea at Sardis

Arts, 2019
Wall painting in the Sardis hypogea expresses a regional visual language situated within the context of Late Antique approaches to decorative surfaces and multivalent motifs of indeterminate religious affiliation. Iconographic ambivalence and a typically
Vanessa Rousseau
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Why Keep the Old Dead Around?

Documenta Praehistorica, 2020
The aim of this article is to focus on the ways in which communities imagined their relationship with the dead throughout the Balkan area during the Neolithic and Eneolithic (6200–3800 cal BC).
Alexandra Ion
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Educated by the Nine Muses? Representations of women with writing materials on funerary monuments [PDF]

, 2021
Both in funerary reliefs and in the written sources, writing tools and materials are often associated with men. Freedmen in Rome and members of the provincial roman elite are depicted with scrolls and toga on their grave monuments, librarii with writing ...
Luginbühl, Josy
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D(is) M(anibus) S(acrum) – AN OVERVIEW OF FUNERARY BEHAVIOURS ON THE TERRITORY OF PRESENT-DAY SWITZERLAND FROM LATE PROTOHISTORY TO EARLY MEDIEVAL TIMES THROUGH THE STUDY OF MATERIAL REMAINS, TEXTUAL SOURCES AND FUNERARY INSCRIPTIONS

Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 2021
The present article focuses on funerary behaviours on the territory of present-day Switzerland from the end of the protohistoric period to the early Middle Ages.
Tobias Hofstetter
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The Funerary Papyrus of ‘Enkhefenkhons [PDF]

The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 1917
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The funerary practices from the end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age in the south-west of Romania and the relations with the south of Danube

Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies, 2022
The socio-anthropological approach to the funerary practices proves a tight connection between the religious beliefs and the funerary practices. However, it is hard to be evidenced only through the funerary discoveries most of the time.
Simona Lazăr
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Funerary practices [PDF]

, 2016
This chapter explores the themes of social hierarchy, the construction of individual or group identity, and memory via an examination of funerary practices in Roman Italy, focusing upon the late Republic and early Empire.
Graham, Emma-Jayne, Hope, Valerie M., Valerie M. Hope, Emma-Jayne Graham   +3 more
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Formulae used in funerary inscriptions in Algeria in the Roman period

Revue d'Histoire Méditerranéenne, 2022
The Latin inscriptions discovered in Algeria represent very important documents to study the African societies during the roman period. The Latin gravestones, including pagan and Christian ones formed the biggest number; they vary between the simple ...
Djahida Mehentel, Nedjma Serradj
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