A dignified passage through the gates of Hades : the burial custom of cremation and the Warrior Order of Ancient Eleutherna / Anagnostis P. Agelarakis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Agelarakis, Anagnostis P., 1956- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology)--Greece--Eleutherna (Extinct city).

Excavations (Archaeology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (22 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Archaeopress Publishing Limited, [2016]

Summary:

Archaeological excavations at the Eleuthernian burial ground of Orthi Petra yielded a remarkable collection of jar burials in complex internal tomb stratification, containing cremated human bones accompanied by a most noteworthy assembly of burial artifacts of exquisite wealth.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright Information

Contents

List of Figures, Tables and Graphs

A Dignified Passage through the Gates of Hades: The Burial Custom of Cremation and the Warrior Order of Ancient Eleutherna

Prologue

Introduction

Anthropological Insights on Monumental Tomb A1K1

The warrior order of ancient Eleutherna

Deciphering conferred funerary whispers

Standing upright in Hades

Acknowledgements

Epilogue

Graph 1: A1K1: Sex Sub-Groups of 141 Cremated Homini Retrieved from 135 Vase Contexts

Figure 1: Mourning scene around a fallen warrior, placed with his panoply on a supine and extended position on the pyre structure, with provisions for his katábasis to Hades

Figure 2: Anatomically reconstructed cremains of a fallen warrior, comprising the distal third of his humerus, the region of the elbow joint and the proximal third of the ulna: right side-dorsal view.

Graph 2: A1K1: Abridged Age Sub-Groups of 141 Cremated Homini Retrieved from 135 Vase Contexts

Table 1

Figure 3: A congregation of Eleuthernians in the Asphodel Meadows of Hades.

Table 2

Table 3

Figure 4: A schematic reconstruction of the burial custom of placing warrior cremains into funerary vases, to anatomically articulate a synthesis of the "second body"

Figure 4: An Eleuthernian warrior at the threshold of crossing the gates of Hades

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78491-384-7