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El sepulcre megalític dels Estanys II (la Jonquera, Alt Empordà) [PDF]
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FUNERARY MONUMENTS AND FUNERARY RITES IN LATE ANTIQUE AQUITAINE
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 1986Summary.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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A New Inscribed Funerary Monument from Aigina
Hesperia, 2002This article presents an ancient monument discovered on Aigina in 1999. The monument is remarkable for its unusual shape: a rectangular slab with a pyramidal top, a two-line inscription, and a deep niche with dowel holes in the floor and back walls. I argue that the monument is funerary in function, and that its peculiar features are related to its ...
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Monumental history: funerary monuments and public memory
2019Archaeologia Cambrensis, 160, 219 ...
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Funerary monuments of the Gattelusi at Mytilene
The Annual of the British School at Athens, 1992Five fragments from the tombs of the Gattelusi dynasty of Lesbos are presented, which were originally published by F.W. Hasluck in BSA 15 (1908–9). The monuments are published in detail for the first time, and are placed in the context of contemporary Byzantine and Genoese funerary monuments at Constantinople and in the Aegean.
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New Funerary Monuments from Aizanoi
AdalyaThis article analyses 33 grave inscriptions found during the 2021 and 2022 excavation seasons in the ancient city of Aizanoi. Most of the monuments presented here are doorstones and separate gables, along with a few bomoi, stelae, and a marble block, all dating back to the Roman Imperial period.These inscriptions are particularly noteworthy for the ...
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The Nature and Uses of Funerary Monuments
2002Aspects of the commemoration of the dead have already been referred to earlier in this book, and it is now necessary to consider one of the most obvious expressions of such commemoration. While medieval and early modern Irish funerary monuments have long been exploited by historians and others as useful illustrative material for a society which left ...
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Unfinished funerary monuments at Pula
2007Unfinished stelae and sarcophagi made of local Istrian limestone and Prokonnesos marble shed some light on workshop processes and provide the necessary evidence to prove that funerary monuments were manufactured in local stone- dressing workshops. Six unfinished funerary monuments from Istria are discussed.
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