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Gifts for the afterlife: Evidence of mortuary practices on the necropolis at Marina el-Alamein [PDF]
The paper considers the evidence for mortuary practices in the form of grave accompaniments and grave offerings recorded during excavations of the Graeco-Roman necropolis at Marina el-Alamein.
Zych, Iwona
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Two Greek Funerary Stelae from Lydia and the Antonine Plague
The two stelae published below belong to private collections in Antwerp and Durharn respectively. They were bought on the antiquities market and belong to a type that is particularly frequent in North-east Lydia, especially the area of ancient Saittae.
Yanne Broux, Willy Clarysee
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The First Intermediate Period was a time of cultural innovation and social competition. The collapse of the monarchy and the cultural productions it sponsored paved the way for the emergence of new artistic and cultural expressions, better adapted to a ...
Juan Carlos Moreno García
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‘There Buds the Laurel’: Nature, Temporality and the Making of Place in the Cemeteries of Roman Italy [PDF]
Using the necropolis environments of the Vesuvian region of Imperial period Italy as a case study, this paper examines the ways in which multiple, overlapping, and temporally specific senses of place were associated with Roman funerary landscapes.
Graham, Emma-Jayne
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Excavations at the Nubian royal town of Kerma: 1975-91 [PDF]
Kerma is an ancient city on the Nile in Middle Nubia, long known and the subject of renewed recent exploration. Its position, at the southern limit of Egyptian control, sets it strategically on the routes to the African interior.
Bonnet, Charles
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Os menires do Lavajo (Alcoutim) [PDF]
O conjunto megalítico do Lavajo (freguesia de Afonso Vicente, concelho de Alcoutim) é constituído por dois núcleos (Lavajo I e Lavajo II), intervisíveis e distanciados de cerca de 250 m segundo a direcção NNE-SSW, encontrando-se separados pelo pequeno ...
Cardoso, João Luís, Gradim, Alexandra
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Memorials as Healing Places: A Matrix for Bridging Material Design and Visitor Experience. [PDF]
Wagoner B, Brescó I.
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Funerary Iconography on an Infant Burial Jar from Ashkelon
The 2007 season of the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon unearthed a remarkable intramural infant jar burial, bearing roughly incised images on both sides.
Birney, Kathleen, Doak, Brian R.
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Household Rituals and Merchant Caravanners: The Phenomenon of Early Bronze Age Donkey Burials from Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel. [PDF]
Greenfield HJ +5 more
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Three funerary stelae found in Aliveri
Between 2009 and 2013, urgent excavations were conducted on the south-east of Karavos near Alivéri by R. Skafida, E. Christodoulou, Chr. Varela and the author. The discovery of numerous archaeological remains beneath and around the steam electric station in the bay of Karavos confirms the major role played by this site, which S.
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