Profiling death, Neo-Elamite mortuary practices, afterlife beliefs, and entanglements with ancestors /

Profiling death, Neo-Elamite mortuary practices, afterlife beliefs, and entanglements with ancestors / / Yasmina Wicks.

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Recent scholarship has begun to unveil the culturally rich and dynamic landscape of southwest Iran during the first half of the first millennium BCE (aka the Neo-Elamite period) and its significance as the incubation ground for the Persian Empire. In Profiling Death. Neo-Elamite Mortuary Practices,...

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Wicks, Yasmina,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 98.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Illustrations
  • Alas, Short is the Joy of Life! Why Study Elamite Mortuary Practices?
  • The Backdrop: Elam in the First Millennium
  • Neo-Elamite Geography, Chronology, History, and the Textual and Iconographic Evidence Used in this Book
  • The Mortuary Evidence
  • The Burial Evidence
  • Burial Location, Typology, Orientation and Body Arrangement
  • The Assemblages
  • Neo-Elamite Social Identities: Portraits in Graves
  • Social Identity in the Mortuary Record
  • Combining Archaeology and Text: Death, Afterlife and the Neo-Elamite Funeral
  • “Alas, Short is the Joy of Life”: Death and the Afterlife through an Elamite Lens
  • Imagining the Neo-Elamite Funeral from Archaeology and Texts
  • Concluding Note: the Neo-Elamite Period at the Juncture of Old and New
  • Back Matter
  • Table of Neo-Elamite Burials
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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