Profiling death : Neo-Elamite mortuary practices, afterlife beliefs, and entanglements with ancestors / by Yasmina Wicks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wicks, Yasmina, author.

Series:

Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; v. 98.

Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; volume 98

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient--Iran.

Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient.

Elymaeans--Iran--Social life and customs.

Elymaeans.

Manners and customs.

Iran.

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 373 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Summary:

"Recent scholarship has begun to unveil the culturally rich and dynamic landscape of southwest Iran during the first half of the first millennium BCE (aka the Neo-Elamite period) and its significance as the incubation ground for the Persian Empire. In 'Profiling Death. Neo-Elamite Mortuary Practices, Afterlife Beliefs, and Entanglements with Ancestors', Yasmina Wicks continues the investigation of this critical epoch from the perspective of the mortuary record, bringing forth fascinating clues as to the ritual practices, beliefs, social structures and individual identities of Elam's lowland and highland inhabitants. Enmeshed with its neighbours, yet in many ways culturally distinct, Elam receives its due treatment here as a core component of the ancient Near East"--Back cover.

Recent scholarship has begun to unveil the culturally rich and dynamic landscape of southwest Iran during the first half of the first millennium BCE (aka the Neo-Elamite period) and its significance as the incubation ground for the Persian Empire. In 'Profiling Death. Neo-Elamite Mortuary Practices, Afterlife Beliefs, and Entanglements with Ancestors', Yasmina Wicks continues the investigation of this critical epoch from the perspective of the mortuary record, bringing forth fascinating clues as to the ritual practices, beliefs, social structures and individual identities of Elam's lowland and highland inhabitants. Enmeshed with its neighbours, yet in many ways culturally distinct, Elam receives its due treatment here as a core component of the ancient Near East.

Contents:

Neo-Elamite geography, chronology, history, and the textual and iconographic evidence used in this book

The burial evidence

Burial location, typology, orientation and body arrangement

The assemblages

Social identity in the mortuary record

"Alas, short is the joy of life": death and the afterlife through an Elamite lens

Imagining the Neo-Elamite funeral from archaeology and texts.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Sydney, 2017, under the title: "Alas, short is the joy of life!" Elamite funerary practice in the first half of the first millenium BCE.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [254]-283) and index.

ISBN:

9789004388109

9004388109

9004391770

9789004391772

OCLC:

1066199719