Death and Burial in Ancient Alexandria - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death and Burial in Ancient Alexandria write by Cassandra L. Casperson. This book was released on 2007. Death and Burial in Ancient Alexandria available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As study of the Alexandrian monumental rock-cut tombs in the eastern necropolis of Moustapha Pasha, leads to a re-examination of their artifacts, architectural features, and function. Cut into the limestone bedrock and entered by means of a staircase, the monumental rock-cut tombs in Alexandria were composed of numerous chambers arranged around a centralized courtyard open to the sky, where Alexandrians performed funeral rituals. These tombs are an important tool for understanding the burial practices and funeral rites of people living in ancient Alexandria. Previous studies of these tombs have not acknowledged the importance of over five hundred artifacts recovered during excavations, leading to an incorrect chronology for the tombs as well as an incomplete understanding of the funeral rites performed therein. This analysis of the artifacts from the tombs extends their period of use well into the Roman period.
Monumental Tombs of Ancient Alexandria
Monumental Tombs of Ancient Alexandria - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Monumental Tombs of Ancient Alexandria write by Marjorie Susan Venit. This book was released on 2002. Monumental Tombs of Ancient Alexandria available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Spanning the life of the ancient city almost from 331 BCE through its transformation into a Christian metropolis, Alexandria's monumental tombs provide the single richest source of information about the ancient city. They attest to the diversity and the cohesion of the community, its population's wealth and love of luxury, sense of theatricality and pomp, and cosmopolitan attitude. Alexandria's monumental tombs confirm the changing ethos of the city's populace, as the tombs provide the stage on which the city's continuity and shifting concerns are played out.
Oxford Bibliographies
Oxford Bibliographies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Oxford Bibliographies write by Ilan Stavans. This book was released on . Oxford Bibliographies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "An emerging field of study that explores the Hispanic minority in the United States, Latino Studies is enriched by an interdisciplinary perspective. Historians, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, demographers, linguists, as well as religion, ethnicity, and culture scholars, among others, bring a varied, multifaceted approach to the understanding of a people whose roots are all over the Americas and whose permanent home is north of the Rio Grande. Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies offers an authoritative, trustworthy, and up-to-date intellectual map to this ever-changing discipline."--Editorial page.
Death and Burial in Ancient Egypt
Death and Burial in Ancient Egypt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death and Burial in Ancient Egypt write by Salima Ikram. This book was released on 2003. Death and Burial in Ancient Egypt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This well-illustrated book explores all aspects of death in ancient Egypt, including beliefs of the afterlife, mummification, the protection of the body, tombs and their construction and decoration, funerary goods, and the funeral itself. It also addresses the relationship between the living and the dead, and the magico-religious interaction of these two in ancient Egyptian culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt
Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt write by Jan Assmann. This book was released on 2011-11-14. Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Human beings," the acclaimed Egyptologist Jan Assmann writes, "are the animals that have to live with the knowledge of their death, and culture is the world they create so they can live with that knowledge." In his new book, Assmann explores images of death and of death rites in ancient Egypt to provide startling new insights into the particular character of the civilization as a whole. Drawing on the unfamiliar genre of the death liturgy, he arrives at a remarkably comprehensive view of the religion of death in ancient Egypt. Assmann describes in detail nine different images of death: death as the body being torn apart, as social isolation, the notion of the court of the dead, the dead body, the mummy, the soul and ancestral spirit of the dead, death as separation and transition, as homecoming, and as secret. Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt also includes a fascinating discussion of rites that reflect beliefs about death through language and ritual.
