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Food for the soul and food for the body. Studying dietary patterns and funerary meals in the Western Roman Empire: An anthropological and archaeozoological approach. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Ancient written sources show that Roman funerary rituals were relevant along the entire Roman Republic and Empire, as they ensured the protection of deities and the memory of the deceased.
Domingo C Salazar-García +2 more
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, 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
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Pandemic-related excess mortality (COVID-19), public health measures and funerary rituals [PDF]
EClinicalMedicine, 2020 Eric Crubézy, Norbert Telmon
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Armless Figures in Ancient Egypt Until The End of The New Kingdom [PDF]
Shedet, 2021 Figures with physical disabilities were rarely represented in ancient Egyptian art. The idealistic representation of the body was the customary rule followed by gods and kings.
Mona El Nadi
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Enclosures of Death in the Early Iron Age
Documenta Praehistorica, 2021 This article focuses on the study of the Early Iron Age necropolis of Esfola, taking into account the burial rituals of the site (the architecture, the funerary objects and the human skeletal analyses are dealt with in the context of ‘burial ritual ...
Linda Melo, Ana Maria Silva
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عمارة جنائزیة وممارسات عقائدیة لیبیة- بونیة [PDF]
Journal of General Union of Arab Archaeologists, 2016 Some funerary Libyan-Punic shrines contain special ideological accessories to practice rituals and beliefs; it has evolved from simple niche to a large tiled floor with wide corridors and facing the monument.
dr.Farida AMROUS
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‘Houses of Graves’ of Central-East Europe: Archaeology about Jewish Funeral Rituals
Fasciculi Archaeologiae Historicae, 2023 This article presents the state of archaeological research on Jewish cemeteries in Central-East Europe, mainly on the basis of excavations conducted in Poland, Czechia, and Lithuania).
Kalina Skóra
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Une nouvelle tombe de médecin avec matériel de jeu à Colonia Emerita Augusta (Espagne)
Pallas, 2022 This article analyses the material from the cremation tomb of a medical doctor dating from the second half of the 1st century AD discovered in the necropolis of Colonia Iulia Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain).
Leandro Tristão
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The Funerary Rites of Won Buddhism in Korea
Religions, 2020 Won Buddhism, established in 1916 by Founding Master Sot’aesan (少太山, 1891–1943), is one of the most active new religious movements in South Korea. When Korean society experienced a revolution in terms of values together with a swift transformation at the
Kwangsoo Park
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Entrusting the Witches to Ḫumuṭ-tabal: the ušburruda Ritual BM 47806+ [PDF]
, 2010 The hitherto unpublished Late Babylonian fragment BM 47806 + adds another example to the group of rituals which counteract witchcraft by banning sorcerers to the netherworld.
Schwemer, Daniel
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