Author
by Benjamin Wehry, with contributions from Kathrin Schmitt, Heide Hornig, Jennifer Luedtke Kennedy.
Publication Place
Wiesbaden -
Subject
Cemeteries -- Dūr-Katlimmu (Extinct city) -- Syria, Excavations (Archaeology) -- Dūr-Katlimmu (Extinct city) -- Syria, Dūr-Katlimmu (Extinct city) -- Antiquities, Syria -- Antiquities, Syria -- Dūr-Katlimmu (Extinct city)
Type
Book
Language
German
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
2 v. (lxxvi, 654 pages) : illust. ; 36 cm. + 10 leaves (6 folded)
Library
Biblio Pera
Library Asset ID
9783447100236
Record ID
926653
Date
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013.
Notes
Reports of the excavation Tall Seh Hamad / Dur-Katlimmu; 13/1, | Reports of the excavation Tall Seh Hamad / Dur-Katlimmu; 13/ 1, 2 The currently most extensive burial field of the Arsacid period in Mesopotamia, with 732 registered grave complexes, was excavated between 1984 and 2004 at the Tall Seh Hamad site, located at the interface of the Arsacid-Parthian and the Seleucid and later Roman Empires in eastern Syria on the Habur River. The field belongs to the small town of Magdala, whose excavated settlement remains were published in Volume 2 of this book series (BATSH) in 2005. 00Benjamin Wehry first uses the excavation findings to develop the grave typology of mud brick graves, earth graves, pot graves, sarcophagus graves and grave-like find complexes. He then analyzes the finds and combines them into typological-functional groups of finds, which form 15 material groups. Afterwards, through the vertical grave stratigraphy of the grave field sections 1 and 2 as well as an overall seriation of the grave complexes and find types, he arrives at a chronological structure of the overall findings into periods I to IV. His attempt to reconstruct a regular death ritual results from the consideration of the burial and grave offering customs as well as the post-sepulchral death cult. The cultural morphological-chronological and cultural-geographical classification of the grave and find types of the grave complexes is traced back to original Mesopotamian burial and grave goods traditions. Time-specific imports and foreign forms from the Parthian and Roman Empires fall into a homogeneous, Arsacid period context of findings and finds. Parallel finds and findings are particularly documented in northern Mesopotamia and define a northern Mesopotamian burial custom circle.
LOC Sınıflaması
DS99.D78 W44 2013,v.1-2
Özet Dili
English
