Funerary Landscapes of the Late Antique oecumene

Contextualizing Epigraphic and Archaeological Evidence of Mortuary Practices : Proceedings of an International Conference in Heidelberg, May 30¿June 1, 2019
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-3-96822-210-3
Verlag: Heidelberg University Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 594 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 182 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1332 g

Reihe: Kulturelles Erbe / Materialität ¿ Text ¿ Edition (KEMTE) 3

This volume presents the first pan-Mediterranean panorama of Late Antique mortuary practices, combining and contextualizing an abundant dataset of archaeological and epigraphic evidence. In 17 contributions, a group of international specialists discusses funerary evidence from 14 Late Antique landscapes, in order to show the high diversity of microregional and local customs in funerary cultures as well as the significance of global trends. In this volume various new methodological approaches are applied: the materiality of epitaphs and tombs, their visibility, their accessibility, their perception, their setting within shifting spatial environments, as well as their crucial role within social practices. Therefore, this book fundamentally reshapes our understanding of mortuary habits and the commemoration of the dead during the transitional phase of the Long Late Antiquity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ardeleanu, Stefan

Cubas Díaz, Jon C.

Über Autor(innen)

Ardeleanu, Stefan
Stefan Ardeleanu is postdoctoral research associate at the RomanIslam-Center at the University of Hamburg. His main fields of research are urbanism in pre- and early Roman in, as well as Late Antique funerary inscriptions from North Africa, stone monuments of Roman Germany, Late Antique commemorative rituals in funerary contexts and modern perceptions of antiquity. He has published books on ancient Numidia and on a museum collection of Roman stone monuments in Mannheim, as well as many contributions to small finds, inscriptions and funerary contexts from Roman to Late antique North Africa and the Germanies.

Cubas Díaz, Jon C.
Jon C. Cubas Díaz is research associate at the Institute of Christian Archaeology and Byzantine Art History at the University of Göttingen. His current fields of research focus are funerary practices in Late Antique Asia Minor, with a special emphasis on Rough Cilicia, as well as Late Byzantine iconography and sacred architecture. He published a monograph and several articles on Late Roman funerary practices in Cilicia and the Near East, as well as on the Late Byzantine Akathistos Hymnos and intermedial compositional processes.