A dignified passage through the gates of Hades : : the burial custom of cremation and the Warrior Order of Ancient Eleutherna /

A dignified passage through the gates of Hades : : the burial custom of cremation and the Warrior Order of Ancient Eleutherna / / Anagnostis P. Agelarakis.

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Archaeological excavations at the Eleuthernian burial ground of Orthi Petra yielded a remarkable collection of jar burials in complex internal tomb stratification, containing cremated human bones accompanied by a most noteworthy assembly of burial artifacts of exquisite wealth.

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Agelarakis, Anagnostis P., 1956-
Place / Publishing House:Oxford, England : : Archaeopress Publishing Limited,, [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (22 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Copyright Information
  • Contents
  • List of Figures, Tables and Graphs
  • A Dignified Passage through the Gates of Hades: The Burial Custom of Cremation and the Warrior Order of Ancient Eleutherna
  • Prologue
  • Introduction
  • Anthropological Insights on Monumental Tomb A1K1
  • The warrior order of ancient Eleutherna
  • Deciphering conferred funerary whispers
  • Standing upright in Hades
  • Acknowledgements
  • Epilogue
  • Graph 1: A1K1: Sex Sub-Groups of 141 Cremated Homini Retrieved from 135 Vase Contexts
  • Figure 1: Mourning scene around a fallen warrior, placed with his panoply on a supine and extended position on the pyre structure, with provisions for his katábasis to Hades
  • Figure 2: Anatomically reconstructed cremains of a fallen warrior, comprising the distal third of his humerus, the region of the elbow joint and the proximal third of the ulna: right side-dorsal view.
  • Graph 2: A1K1: Abridged Age Sub-Groups of 141 Cremated Homini Retrieved from 135 Vase Contexts
  • Table 1
  • Figure 3: A congregation of Eleuthernians in the Asphodel Meadows of Hades.
  • Table 2
  • Table 3
  • Figure 4: A schematic reconstruction of the burial custom of placing warrior cremains into funerary vases, to anatomically articulate a synthesis of the "second body"
  • Figure 4: An Eleuthernian warrior at the threshold of crossing the gates of Hades
  • Back Cover.

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