Archaeology of Death in Roman Syria - Burial, Commemoration, and Empire

This book sheds new light on funerary customs in Roman Syria, offering a novel way of understanding its provincial culture.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Locating the dead: space, landscape, and cemetery organization; 2. The tomb: architecture and decoration; 3. Gifts for the dead: function and distribution of grave goods; 4. The dead: bones, portraits, and epitaphs; 5. Funerary beliefs: differentiation, continuity, and change in ritual; 6. The global and the local: Romanization, globalization, and the Syrian cemetary; Postscript; Appendix 1. Sites; Appendix 2. Tomb types; List of online appendices.

About the author

Lidewijde de Jong is Assistant Professor in Archaeology at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands. She has extensive fieldwork experience in the Middle East and has co-directed projects in Syria. She was awarded a Visiting Scholar Fellowship at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. She has published widely on mortuary archaeology and Roman Mesopotamia. She serves on the Advisory Board of the American Journal of Archaeology and is the chair of the Center for the Study of Culture, Religion and Society - Interdisciplinary Studies in the Ancient World (CRASIS) at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.

Summary

This book is the first all-inclusive overview of the archaeology of death in Roman Syria, and combines spatial analysis of cemeteries with the study of funerary architecture, decoration, and grave goods, as well as information about the deceased provided by sculptural, epigraphic, and osteological sources.

Product details

• Authors: Lidewijde de Jong, Lidewijde (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen De Jong, Lidewijde De Jong, Lidewijde De (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Jong, Tbd
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.07.2017
• EAN: 9781107131415
• ISBN: 978-1-107-13141-5
• No. of pages: 355
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Syria, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE