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Author:   J. Rasmus Brandt ,  Erika Hagelberg ,  Gro Bjørnstad ,  Sven Ahrens
Publisher:   Oxbow Books
Imprint:   Oxbow Books
Volume:   10
Dimensions:   Width: 21.50cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 27.90cm
Weight:   1.588kg
ISBN:  

9781785703591

ISBN 10:   1785703595
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   31 January 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements          vii Authors and Addresses         ix Introduction. Dead bodies – Live data: Some reflections from the sideline     xiii J. Rasmus Brandt   PART I: From life to death. Death and the social and funerary setting   The  Sanctuary of St Philip in Hierapolis and the tombs of saints in Anatolian cities                   Francesco D’Andria   2. Necropoleis from the territory of Hierapolis in Phrygia: New data from archaeological surveys Giuseppe Scardozzi   3. The South-East Necropolis of Hierapolis of Phrygia: Planning, typologies and construction techniques Donatella Ronchetta   4. Tomb 163d in the North Necropolis of Hierapolis of Phrygia. An insight into the funerary gestures and practices of the Jewish Diaspora in Asia Minor in Late Antiquity and the Proto-Byzantine period Caroline Laforest, Dominique Castex, and Frédérique Blaizot   5. Tomb ownership in Lycia; site selection and burial rights with selected rock tombs and epigraphical material from Tlos Gül Işın and Ertan Yıldız   6. The sarcophagus of Alexandros, son of Philippos. An important discovery in the Lycian city of Tlos Taner Korkut and Çilem Uygun   7. ‘Till death do them part’: Reconstructing Graeco-Roman family life from funerary inscriptions of Aphrodisias Esen Öğüş   8. Social status and tomb monuments in Hierapolis and Roman Asia Minor Sven Ahrens   9. New evidence for non-elite burial patterns in central Turkey Andrew L. Goldman   10. Reflections on the mortuary landscape of Ephesus. The archaeology of death in a Roman Metropolis Martin Steskal   11. Christian burials in a pagan context at Amorium Christopher S. Lightfoot   12. Romans, Christians, and pilgrims at Hierapolis in Phrygia. A funerary journey of mental changes Camilla Cecilie Wenn, Sven Ahrens, and J. Rasmus Brandt               PART II: From death to life. Man and ancient life conditions   13. Analysis of DNA in human skeletal material from Hierapolis Gro Bjørnstad and Erika Hagelberg   14. Isotopic investigations of human diet and mobility at the site of Hierapolis, Turkey Megan Wong, Elise Naumann, Klervia Jaouen, and Michael Richards   15. Diet in Roman Pergamon using stable isotope (C, N, S), osteoarchaeological and historical data – preliminary results Johanna Propstmeier, Olaf Nehlich, Michael Richards, Gisela Grupe, Gundula H. Müldner, and Wolf-Rüdiger Teegen   16. Pergamon – Kyme – Priene: Health and disease from the Roman to the Late Byzantine period in different locations of Asia Minor Wolf-Rüdiger Teegen   17. Toothache, back pain, and fatal injuries – what skeletons tell about life and death at Roman and Byzantine Hierapolis Henrike Kiesewetter   18. Health and disease of infants and children in Byzantine Anatolia between AD 600 and 1350 Michael Schultz and Tyede H. Schmidt-Schultz   19. Infant and child skeletons from the Lower City Church at Byzantine Amorium F. Arzu Demirel   20. The wrestler from Ephesus: Osteobiography of a man from the Roman period based on his anthropological and palaeopathological record Jan Nováček, Kristina Scheelen, and Michael Schultz   General Index  

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These articles offer the possibility, especially to historians reliant on written sources, to have valuable data quantitative and objective information for better estimation of diet, living conditions, structure of families and the relationship to death of populations of Asia Minor during Antiquity and the Middle Ages, in particular in the city of Hierapolis of Phrygia. * Antiquite Tardive *

Author Information

J. Rasmus Brandt is Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, Conservation, and History, University of Oslo. Erika Hagelberg is Professor of Evolutionary Biology, University of Oslo. Gro Bjørnstad is Divisional Engineer at the Department of Forensic Biology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Sven Ahrens is a classical archaeologists and Senior Curator at the Norwegian Maritime Museum.

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