Images of Music and Musicians as Indicators of Status, Wealth and Political Power on Roman Funerary Monuments [PDF]
, 2019 Untersuchungen bildlicher Darstellungen von Musikinstrumenten sowie Musikantinnen und Musikanten haben ergeben, dass sie in Grabkontexten benutzt wurden, um auf den Wohlstand sowie den politischen oder sozialen Status der verstorbenen Person oder ihrer ...
Alexandrescu, Cristina-Georgeta
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Polyneices’ Body and His Monument: Class, Social Status, and Funerary Commemoration in Sophocles’ Antigone [PDF]
, 2006 There has been much debate about the role of Greek tragedy in questioning and/or affirming values. This paper addresses the broader relationship between theater and society in terms of the ways in which the dead were commemorated in fifth-century Athens.
David Roselli
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Gallia, 2018 During a rescue excavation carried out in 2012 on the site of Les Reliades in Le Puy-en-Velay (Haute-Loire), a small funerary monument built on wooden poles dated to the second century was unearthed.
Bertrand Bonaventure, Marie-Josée Ancel
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A Roman funerary inscription from Smederevo [PDF]
Starinar, 2016 In this short paper the authors publish a Hungarian wartime postcard from Smederevo (Serbia), from 1916. It is reported that a Roman gravestone was found on the banks of the Danube and the text of the lost stone monument was also added.
Kovács Péter, Prohászka Péter
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Insights on the changing dynamics of cemetery use in the neolithic and chalcolithic of southern Portugal. Radiocarbon dating of Lugar do Canto Cave (Santarém) [PDF]
, 2014 Lugar do Canto Cave is one of the most relevant Neolithic burial caves in Portugal given not only its extraordinary preservation conditions at the time of discovery but also the quality of the field record obtained during excavation. Its material culture
Carvalho, António, Luis Cardoso, Joao
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Note sur un bloc de monument funéraire antique à tête de lion découvert à Lyon
Revue Archéologique de l’Est, 2008 A monumental block was discovered in Lyon in 2006 with a lion’s head in bas-relief. This reused block probably originates from an Early Roman soldier’s funerary monument.
Maria-Pia Darblade-Audoin
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Heroic themes of the Trojan cycle in Roman funerary art example of a relief from Pincum [PDF]
Balcanica, 2006 The fragment of a marble relief from Roman Pincum (modern-day Veliko Gradište, Serbia) showing Achilles and Hector inspires to explore the symbolic meaning of this mythological composition and to examine other relief's depicting heroic themes of the ...
Pilipović Sanja
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Transmission and Mortal Anxiety in the Tale of Aqhat [PDF]
, 2017 Forthcoming in Like ʾIlu Are You Wise: Studies in Northwest Semitic Languages and Literature in Honor of Dennis G.
Jacqueline Vayntrub
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Asia Anteriore Antica, 2020 Death remains a fascinating and challenging issue for archaeological research. Sometimes, however, it is astonishing how rationally and unemotionally archaeologists and anthropologists approach it.
Dominik Bonatz
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The Posthumous Depiction of Youths in Late Hellenistic and Early Imperial Gymnasia [PDF]
, 2018 Dieser Beitrag untersucht posthume Ehrungen und Darstellungen von jungen Männern im Gymnasion, die in der Forschung bislang nicht umfassend untersucht worden sind.
Kazakidi, Natalia
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