Commemorating the Dead : Texts and Artifacts in Context. Studies of Roman, Jewish and Christian Burials.

Commemorating the Dead  analyzes and interprets the material remains of Roman period burials in light of ancient texts. Is the move from columbaria to catacombs the result of evolving religious identities or simply a matter of a change in fashions? What Greco-Roman and Jewish funerary images were &q...

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Author / Creator: Brink, Laurie.
Other Authors / Creators:Green, Deborah.
Saller, Richard.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 2008.
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Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. An Overview of the Intellectual History of Catacomb Archaeology
  • Chapter 2. Housing the Dead: The Tomb as House in Roman Italy
  • Chapter 3. Commemorating the Dead in the Communal Cemeteries of Carthage
  • Chapter 4. Dining with the Dead: From the Mensa to the Altar in Christian Late Antiquity
  • Chapter 5. Sweet Spices in the Tomb: An Initial Study on the Use of Perfume in Jewish Burials
  • Chapter 6. From Columbaria to Catacombs: Collective Burial in Pagan and Christian Rome
  • Chapter 7. Roman and Christian Burial Practices and the Patronage of Women
  • Chapter 8. From Endymion in Roman Domus to Jonah in Christian Catacombs: From Houses of the Living to Houses for the Dead. Iconography and Religion in Transition
  • Chapter 9. Looking for Abercius: Reimagining Contexts of Interpretation of the "Earliest Christian Inscription"
  • Backmatter.