ISBN:
9781789252439
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (294 pages)
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
393.09386
Keywords:
Burial-Greece-Peloponnesus (Peninsula)-History-To 1500
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Abstract:
Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 'Κοίλη Λακεδαίμονα κητώεσσαν': the topographical and geological setting -- Epidavros Limera: introducing a case study -- 1. Graves and burial contexts -- The excavated tombs and funerary contexts -- Mycenaean tombs and burials reported but not excavated on the Spartan Plain -- Mycenaean tombs and burials reported but not excavated at West Parnon and the Lower Evrotas Valley -- Mycenaean tombs and burials reported but not excavated on the Helos Plain -- Mycenaean tombs and burials reported but not excavated at Vardounia and Mani -- Mycenaean tombs and burials reported but not excavated on the Malea Peninsula -- 2. Burial architecture -- Architectures of death -- 3. Burial customs and rites -- Before the Mycenaeans: burial practices in Middle Helladic Laconia -- Burying the dead in Mycenaean Laconia: from pre-liminal to post-liminal -- Entering the tomb -- Funerary offerings in primary burials -- Second funeral rites -- 4. Pottery -- Transitional MH III/LH I and LH I -- LH I (decorated) -- LH IIA -- LH IIB -- LH IIIA1 -- LH IIIA2 -- H IIIA2 Unattributed fragments -- LH IIIB -- Transitional LH IIIB2/IIIC Early -- LH IIIC Early -- LH IIIC Middle -- LH IIIC Late -- Submycenaean and transitional Sybmycenaean/Early Protogeometric -- Pottery unassignable or datable by context only -- Pottery and tiles of later date (not illustrated) -- Epilogue - Breaking the tomb's silence -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.
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