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Burial and Memorial explores funerary and commemorative archaeology, A.D. 284–650, across the late antique world. This first volume includes an overview of research, and papers exploring bioarchaeology, mortuary rituals, mausolea, and funerary landscapes. It considers the sacralisation of tombs, the movements of relics, and the political significance of cemeteries. The nature and fate of statue monuments is explored, as memorials to individuals. Authors also compare the destruction or preservation of tombs in relation to other buildings. Finally, the city itself is considered as a place of collective memory, where meanings were long maintained, via a study of spoliation.

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Author:   Luke Lavan
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   13/1
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9789004687950

ISBN 10:   9004687955
Pages:   438
Publication Date:   20 November 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Volume 1 Acknowledgements List of Contributors Burial and Memorial in Late Antiquity: Perspectives and Opportunities  Luke Lavan Bioarchaeology Recent Bioarchaeological Research on Early Medieval Cemeteries in Italy  Alexandra Chavarría Arnau, Leonardo Lamanna and Maurizio Marinato Treatment of the Body “To Make the Unseen Seen”: Organic Residue Analysis of Late Roman Grave Deposits  Rhea C. Brettell, Eline M. J. Schotsmans, William H. C. Martin, Ben Stern and Carl P. Heron The Colour of Death: Colour Symbolism and Burial in Roman Britain  Chloe Clark Funeral Processions in Late Antiquity  Luke Lavan Mausolea Late Roman ‘Mausolea’ in Hispania  José Miguel Noguera Celdrán and Javier Arce Mausolea in North-West Europe: the Transition from the Roman to Late Antique Periods  Christopher J. Sparey-Green Late Roman Mausolea in Pannonia  Zsolt Magyar Mausolea in Late Antique Italy  Mark J. Johnson Changing Funerary Landscapes in Late Antiquity: Mausolea in North Africa  Julia Nikolaus Funerary Landscapes Funerary Landscapes in Catalonia (3rd–6th c. AD)  Judit Ciurana Prast The Late Antique Funerary Landscape of Rome: 3rd to 4th c. AD  Barbara E. Borg Burying the Saints Next to the Common Dead: the Burial Habits of the Christian Elite in the 4th c. and the First Translations of Relics  Efthymios Rizos Topography and Ideology: Contested Episcopal Elections and Suburban Cemeteries in Late Antique Rome  Samuel Cohen Other Memorials: Statue Monuments The Archaeology of Late Antique Statue Monuments  Luke Lavan The Many Lives of the Statue Bases of Lepcis Magna  Francesca Bigi and Ignazio Tantillo Tombs and Spolia in City Walls Memorial and Oblivion in Late Antiquity: the Testimony of Spolia in City Walls  Luke Lavan The Destruction, Preservation, and Adaptive Reuse of Funerary Monuments within Urban Fortifications in Late Antiquity: the West  Douglas Underwood The Destruction, Preservation, and Adaptive Reuse of Funerary Monuments in Urban Fortifications in Late Antiquity: the East  Nick Mishkovsky Spolia in Late Antique City Walls: Catalogue 1: Africa and the East  Luke Lavan Spolia in Late Antique City Walls: Catalogue 2: The West  Douglas Underwood and Luke Lavan Spolia and Civic Memory Urban Landscapes from Architectural Reuse: Spolia, Chronology and Civic Memory in Late Antique Ephesus  Luke Lavan Abstracts in French Volume 2 Acknowledgements List of Contributors Burial in Late Antiquity: a Bibliographic Essay Part 1: Thematic and Regional Studies  Solinda Kamani and Luke Lavan Burial in Late Antiquity: a Bibliographic Essay Part 2: Key Sites   Solinda Kamani Regional Perspectives Aspects of Late Roman Burial Practice in Southern Britain  Paul Booth Burial in Late Antiquity: Recent Evidence from Londinium  Victoria Ridgeway and Sadie Watson New Cemetery Evidence from Late Roman Canterbury: the Former Hallet’s Garage Site in Context  Elizabeth Duffy, Adrian Gollop and Jake Weekes Levis aesto terra – Early Christian Elite Burials from St. Maximin, Trier (Germany)  Nicole Reifarth, Hiltrud Merten, Wolf-Rüdiger Teegen, Jens Amendt, Ina Vanden Berghe, Carl Heron, Julian Wiethold, Ursula Drewello, Rainer Drewello and Lukas Clemens Funerary Patterns in Late Roman Cities (3rd to 7th c.): Reviewing Archaeological Data in Northern Italy  Alexandra Chavarría Arnau Funerary Practices in Late Antique Sardinia: Overview and Potential  Mauro Puddu Burial Rites in Byzantine Sicily – New Approaches and Discoveries  Valentina Caminneci, Maria Serena Rizzo and Martin Carver Late Roman Burials in Slovenia  Kaja Stemberger Death at the Edge of Empire: Burial Practices in the Province of Scythia (4th–7th c. AD)  Ciprian Crețu and Andrei D. Soficaru Burial and Society in the Greek World During Late Antiquity  Joseph L. Rife From Necropoleis to Koimetéria: Burial practices in Late Antique (late 3rd–7th c.) Sagalassos, South-West Turkey Sam Cleymans and Peter Talloen The Archaeology of Late Antique Mortuary Practices in the Near East  Ádám Bollók The Archaeology of Death and Burial in Late Antique Egypt  Elisabeth O’Connell Abstracts in French Indices

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Luke Lavan, Ph.D (2001), is a Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Kent. He is the series editor of Late Antique Archaeology, has directed excavation and survey at Ostia, and author of Public Space in the Late Antique City (2020).

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