(Re-)constructing funerary rituals in the ancient Near East
Subtitle: proceedings of the first international symposium of the Tübingen Post-Graduate School "Symbols of the Dead" in May 2009
By: edited by Peter Pfälzner ... [et al.].
Series: Qatna Studien. Supplementa -- Bd. 1; Qaṭna Studien -- Bd. 1.
Publisher: Harrassowitz; Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Wiesbaden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9783447068208
Subjects: Ancient Funeral rites and ceremonies; Congresses; Social archaeology; Religious life and customs; Death; Religious aspects
Other titles: Re-constructing funerary rituals in the Ancient Near East; Constructing funerary rituals in the Ancient Near East
Notes: International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: (Re-)constructing funerary rituals in the ancient Near East : a reflecting review  -- Marlies Heinz; title: Cult of the ancestors and funerary practices at Elba  -- Alfonso Archi; title: A potential reconstruction of funerary rituals in the monument mortuary complex at Tell Ahmar  -- Li Sang; title: An age of heros? : some thoughts on early bronze age funerary customs in Northern Mesopotamia  -- Babara Helwing; title: Era of living dead : funerary praxis and symbol in the third millennium BC Syria  -- Glenn M. Schwartz; title: Funerary practices from the end of the early to the middle bronze age in Northwestern Syria : the Middle Euphrates valley  -- Candida Felli; title: Ritual aspects of Middle Bronze Age burial practices in the Hurrian city of Urkesh  -- Anne Wissing; title: Funerary rites and cult of the ancestors during the Amorite period : the evidence of the Royal Archives of Mari  -- Antoine Jacquet; title: Thanatography and the contextualization of ritual activities : preliminary observations on mortuary ritual practice at Middle Bronze Age Jericho  -- Panayiotis Andreou; title: Two stelae mentioning mortuary offerings from Ugarit (KTU 6.13 and 6.14)  -- Herbert Niehr; title: Food and libation offerings for the royal dead in Ugarit  -- Sarah Lange; title: Urban mortuary practices in Enkomi and Ugarit in the Second Millennium BC  -- Priscilla Keswani; title: How did they bury the kings of Qatna?  -- Peter Pfälzner; title: Calcite-alabaster as grave goods : terminology and sources  -- Tina Köster; title: How to become an ancestor : some thoughts  -- Katharina Teinz; title: "Asiatics will not lay you to rest" : Egyptian funerary ritual and the question of mutual influence  -- Andrea Kucharek; title: The spatial order in the tomb buildings of the Middle Elamite period  -- Behzad Mofidi-Nasrabadi; title: Concerning the dead : how to bury an Assyrian king? : possibilities and limits of the archeological and written evidence in the second and first millennium BC  -- Steven Lundström; title: The role of some stelae in Phoenician burial customs  -- Mathias Lange; title: No cult of the dead  -- Robert Wenning; title: Kyrgyz funerals and memorials from an Ethnological perspective -- Roland Hardenberg.