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Gifts for the afterlife: Evidence of mortuary practices on the necropolis at Marina el-Alamein [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
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

open access: yesTYCHE – Contributions to Ancient History, Papyrology and Epigraphy, 2010
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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Shaping New Identities in the First Intermediate Period (2160–2050 BC): Archers and Warriors in the Iconography of Upper Egypt

open access: yesArts
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]

open access: yes, 2018
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]

open access: yes, 2017
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]

open access: yes, 2006
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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Funerary Iconography on an Infant Burial Jar from Ashkelon

open access: yes, 2011
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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Three funerary stelae found in Aliveri

open access: yes, 2020
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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