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FUNERARY MONUMENTS AND FUNERARY RITES IN LATE ANTIQUE AQUITAINE

Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 1986
Summary.Within the major groups of late Roman sarcophagi and especially of late Gallic sarcophagi (those of Arles and Marseille), the sarcophagi of Aquitaine stand apart in both shape and style. This study traces the broad lines of their stylistic evolution from direct imitations of shape and decoration of the Arelasian models to the fully developed ...
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Cultural Monolith or Mosaic of Diversity? A Contribution to the Study of Funerary Practices on the South-Western Fringe of Old Prussian Territory

Światowit
For many years, research on the funerary practices of early medieval Old Prussians has focused almost exclusively on evidence from the Sambian Peninsula. Recent discoveries, however, have provided a wealth of new data that enabled the first comprehensive
Ludwika Jończyk
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Raw brick in building tradition and funerary practice in Greece and the Bosporus

Древности Боспора
The article gives an answer to the question – who built mud graves in the Bosporus? In Russian historiography, there was an idea according to which barbarians were buried in raw graves, who built them for their dead.
А.В. Иванов, Н.И. Сударев   +1 more
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Cremation from Crypt no. 276 of the Phanagoria Necropolis (Toward the Issue of Bi-ritual Funerary Tradition of the Roman Time)

Stratum plus. Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology
The article presents the study results of the urn with the human cremated remains of a 40—49‑year-old man from the ground crypt 276 of Phanagoria necropolis. The urn was the last burial in the vault of this Roman time chamber.
Maria Dobrovolskaya, Alexei Voroshilov, Natalia Svirkina, Elena Stepanova, Mikhail A. Popov   +4 more
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Steppe Scythian Sites of the 7th—3rd Centuries BC in the Northern Black Sea Area (on the classification of funerary structures)

Stratum plus. Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology
The 7th to 3rd century BC funeral and funerary rites of the steppe Scythian population was a major focus of V.S. Olkhovsky’s work. He studied the Scythian sites in the region, which covers the southern part of Herodotus’ “Scythian square,” including the ...
Tatiana Kuznetsova
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Funerary Rites and the Undercurrents of Authoritarianism: The Cases of Zhu and Song

Chinese Sociology & Anthropology, 2000
Practically every unit of every trade and profession in Beijing organized street demonstrations to support the students' hunger-strike petition in mid-May 1989. I was marching and shouting slogans along Chang'an Boulevard one day with a group from the Central Ministry of Radio and Television when a number of trucks filled with supporters drove up ...
Zhu Xiaoyang, Anita Chan
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Ritual and Funerary Rites in Later Prehistoric Scotland

2019
A report of research undertaken as part of a research grant from the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Theses from OCMS: Funerary Rites in Nepal: Cremation, Burial and Christian Identity

Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies, 2018
This study explores and analyses funerary rite struggles in a nation where Christianity is a comparatively recent phenomenon, and many families have Christian and Hindu, Buddhist and Traditionalist (kiranti) members, who go through traumatic experiences ...
B. Sharma
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Funerary Rites and Practices, Greco-Roman

2015
A description of the typical Egyptian treatment of the body from death to interment during Ptolemaic and Roman times will not differ in its main elements from a similar account of earlier periods: The dead were mourned at home and then transported to the embalming place, normally situated on the west bank of the Nile River, where the mummification of ...
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Doctrinal and Structural Premises for Śaiva Tantric Funerary Practices

Liberating the Liberated, 2019
Rituals related to the event of death and the afterlife hold a somewhat ambiguous position in the ritual world of early medieval tantric Śaivas. This has to do with one essential question: what could be the purpose of any kind of post-mortem ritual ...
N. Mirnig
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