Profiling Death. Neo-Elamite Mortuary Practices, Afterlife Beliefs, and Entanglements with Ancestors
Autor Yasmina Wicksen Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 feb 2019
“This is an important contribution to the study of Neo-Elamite culture.”-Lester L. Grabbe, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 44.5 (2020)
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789004388109
ISBN-10: 9004388109
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 155 x 236 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: de Gruyter Brill
ISBN-10: 9004388109
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 155 x 236 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: de Gruyter Brill
Cuprins
Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Plates
List of Tables
Abbreviations
Alas, Short is the Joy of Life! Why Study Elamite Mortuary Practices?
1 Neo-Elamite Geography, Chronology, History, and the Textual and Iconographic Evidence Used in this Book
1.1 Geography
1.2 Chronology
1.3 Textual Evidence 1
1.4 Iconographic Evidence
1.5 Historical Overview
2 b>The Burial Evidence
2.1 Lowlands
2.1.1Susa
2.1.1.1Apadana
2.2 Foothills
2.2.1Karkhai
2.2.2Kalantar
2.2.3Tall-E Gazir
2.2.4Jubaji
2.2.5Arjan
2.3 Highlands
2.3.1Lama
2.3.2Malyan
3 Burial Location, Typology, Orientation and Body Arrangement
3.1 Location
3.2 Typology
3.2.1Pit
3.2.2Amphorae-Lined Pit
3.2.3Brick
3.2.4Single Pot
3.2.5Double Pot
3.2.6Jar
3.2.7Mudbrick Vaulted Tomb
3.2.8Stone-lined, Gabled-Roof Tomb
3.2.9Stone-Lined, Slab-Roofed Tomb
3.2.10Bronze “Bathtub” Coffin in a Stone-Built Tomb
3.2.11Geographical and Chronological Notes on Typology
3.3 Orientation
3.4 Body Arrangement
4 The Assemblages
4.1 The Skeleton
4.2 Costume
4.2.1Clothing
4.2.1.1 Textiles and Textile Decoration
4.2.1.2 Garment Fasteners: Belts and Pins
4.2.1.3 Visualising Neo-Elamite Clothing
4.2.2Jewellery
4.2.2.1 Jewellery in Neo-Elamite Funerary Contexts
4.2.2.2 Non-funerary Evidence for Jewellery
4.2.2.3 A Word on the Special Value of Eyestones
4.2.3Seals
4.2.4Grooming Utensils and Finishing Touches
4.2.5Weapons
4.2.6Ceremonial(?) “Rings”
4.3 Grave Goods: Equipping the Dead
4.3.1Vessels, Implements and Food Offerings
4.3.1.1 Vessel Categories
4.3.1.2 Vessel Assemblages: Types and Distribution
4.3.1.3 Vessels as Evidence for Ritual in Graves
4.3.1.4 The Menu of the Dead: Food Remains in Graves
4.3.2Fire Ritual Utensils
4.3.2.1 Lamps
4.3.2.2 Candelabra
4.3.3Human Representations
5 Social Identity in the Mortuary Record
5.1 Economic Status
5.2 Gender
5.2.1Elamite Women in Life
5.2.2Construction of Female Identity in the Neo-Elamite Mortuary Record
5.2.3Construction of Male Identity in the Neo-Elamite Mortuary Record
5.2.4Neither Male nor Female? Transcending the Male/Female Dichotomy
5.2.5Non-Costume Grave Goods
5.2.6Further Comments
5.3 Childhood
5.4 Individual and Family Identity: Naming the Dead?
5.5 Occupational Identity
5.6 Ceremonial Status and Notes on Two “Princesses” and a “Princely” Grave
6“Alas, Short is the Joy of Life”: Death and the Afterlife through an Elamite Lens
6.1 Down to the House of Darkness: The Realm of the Dead
6.2 Close Encounters with the Netherworld Powers that Be
6.3 A Weighing and Judgement
6.4 When I am Dead You Will Make the kispu for Me
6.5 Temple Institutions and Funerary Cult?
7 Imagining the Neo-Elamite Funeral from Archaeology and Texts
7.1 A Ceremonial Farewell in the Lowlands and Foothills
7.1.1Choosing a Location
7.1.2Preparation of a Burial Site and Burial Container
7.1.3Preparation of the Body
7.1.4Dressing up the Dead
7.1.5A Funeral Banquet
7.1.6A Burial Ceremony
7.1.7Mourning
7.1.8Keeping up Relations
7.2 A Highland Funeral
Concluding Note: The Neo-Elamite Period at the Juncture of Old and New
Bibliography
Appendix 1: Table of Neo-Elamite Burials
List of Plates
Index
List of Plates
List of Tables
Abbreviations
Alas, Short is the Joy of Life! Why Study Elamite Mortuary Practices?
Part 1: The Backdrop: Elam in the First Millennium
1 Neo-Elamite Geography, Chronology, History, and the Textual and Iconographic Evidence Used in this Book
1.1 Geography
1.2 Chronology
1.3 Textual Evidence 1
1.4 Iconographic Evidence
1.5 Historical Overview
Part 2: The Mortuary Evidence
2 b>The Burial Evidence
2.1 Lowlands
2.1.1Susa
2.1.1.1Apadana
2.2 Foothills
2.2.1Karkhai
2.2.2Kalantar
2.2.3Tall-E Gazir
2.2.4Jubaji
2.2.5Arjan
2.3 Highlands
2.3.1Lama
2.3.2Malyan
3 Burial Location, Typology, Orientation and Body Arrangement
3.1 Location
3.2 Typology
3.2.1Pit
3.2.2Amphorae-Lined Pit
3.2.3Brick
3.2.4Single Pot
3.2.5Double Pot
3.2.6Jar
3.2.7Mudbrick Vaulted Tomb
3.2.8Stone-lined, Gabled-Roof Tomb
3.2.9Stone-Lined, Slab-Roofed Tomb
3.2.10Bronze “Bathtub” Coffin in a Stone-Built Tomb
3.2.11Geographical and Chronological Notes on Typology
3.3 Orientation
3.4 Body Arrangement
4 The Assemblages
4.1 The Skeleton
4.2 Costume
4.2.1Clothing
4.2.1.1 Textiles and Textile Decoration
4.2.1.2 Garment Fasteners: Belts and Pins
4.2.1.3 Visualising Neo-Elamite Clothing
4.2.2Jewellery
4.2.2.1 Jewellery in Neo-Elamite Funerary Contexts
4.2.2.2 Non-funerary Evidence for Jewellery
4.2.2.3 A Word on the Special Value of Eyestones
4.2.3Seals
4.2.4Grooming Utensils and Finishing Touches
4.2.5Weapons
4.2.6Ceremonial(?) “Rings”
4.3 Grave Goods: Equipping the Dead
4.3.1Vessels, Implements and Food Offerings
4.3.1.1 Vessel Categories
4.3.1.2 Vessel Assemblages: Types and Distribution
4.3.1.3 Vessels as Evidence for Ritual in Graves
4.3.1.4 The Menu of the Dead: Food Remains in Graves
4.3.2Fire Ritual Utensils
4.3.2.1 Lamps
4.3.2.2 Candelabra
4.3.3Human Representations
Part 3: Neo-Elamite Social Identities: Portraits in Graves
5 Social Identity in the Mortuary Record
5.1 Economic Status
5.2 Gender
5.2.1Elamite Women in Life
5.2.2Construction of Female Identity in the Neo-Elamite Mortuary Record
5.2.3Construction of Male Identity in the Neo-Elamite Mortuary Record
5.2.4Neither Male nor Female? Transcending the Male/Female Dichotomy
5.2.5Non-Costume Grave Goods
5.2.6Further Comments
5.3 Childhood
5.4 Individual and Family Identity: Naming the Dead?
5.5 Occupational Identity
5.6 Ceremonial Status and Notes on Two “Princesses” and a “Princely” Grave
Part 4: Combining Archaeology and Text: Death, Afterlife and the Neo-Elamite Funeral
6“Alas, Short is the Joy of Life”: Death and the Afterlife through an Elamite Lens
6.1 Down to the House of Darkness: The Realm of the Dead
6.2 Close Encounters with the Netherworld Powers that Be
6.3 A Weighing and Judgement
6.4 When I am Dead You Will Make the kispu for Me
6.5 Temple Institutions and Funerary Cult?
7 Imagining the Neo-Elamite Funeral from Archaeology and Texts
7.1 A Ceremonial Farewell in the Lowlands and Foothills
7.1.1Choosing a Location
7.1.2Preparation of a Burial Site and Burial Container
7.1.3Preparation of the Body
7.1.4Dressing up the Dead
7.1.5A Funeral Banquet
7.1.6A Burial Ceremony
7.1.7Mourning
7.1.8Keeping up Relations
7.2 A Highland Funeral
Concluding Note: The Neo-Elamite Period at the Juncture of Old and New
Bibliography
Appendix 1: Table of Neo-Elamite Burials
List of Plates
Index
Notă biografică
Yasmina Wicks, PhD (2017), is a researcher at the University of Sydney. She has authored a monograph on 8th-6th Century BCE Babylonian, Assyrian and Elamite Bronze ‘Bathtub’ Coffins (Archaeopress, 2015) and several articles on first millennium Elam.
Recenzii
“This is an important contribution to the study of Neo-Elamite culture.”
- Lester L. Grabbe, in Society for Old Testament Study Book List 2020
- Lester L. Grabbe, in Society for Old Testament Study Book List 2020