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Ardeleanu, Stefan and Cubas Díaz, Jon C. (Eds.): Funerary Landscapes of the Late Antique “oecumene”: Contextualizing Epigraphic and Archeological Evidence of Mortuary Practices. Proceedings of an International Conference in Heidelberg, May 30–June 1, 2019, Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2023 (Cultural Heritage: Materiality—Text—Edition (KEMTE), Volume 3). https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1176

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Stefan Ardeleanu (Ed.), Jon C. Cubas Díaz (Ed.)

Funerary Landscapes of the Late Antique “oecumene”

Contextualizing Epigraphic and Archeological Evidence of Mortuary Practices. Proceedings of an International Conference in Heidelberg, May 30–June 1, 2019

Cultural Heritage: Materiality—Text—Edition (KEMTE)

This volume presents the first pan-Mediterranean panorama of Late Antique mortuary practices, combining and contextualizing an abundant dataset of archaeological and epigraphic evidence. In 17 contributions, a group of international specialists discusses funerary evidence from 14 Late Antique landscapes, in order to show the high diversity of microregional and local customs in funerary cultures as well as the significance of global trends. In this volume various new methodological approaches are applied: the materiality of epitaphs and tombs, their visibility, their accessibility, their perception, their setting within shifting spatial environments, as well as their crucial role within social practices. Therefore, this book fundamentally reshapes our understanding of mortuary habits and the commemoration of the dead during the transitional phase of the Long Late Antiquity.

Stefan Ardeleanu is postdoctoral research associate at the RomanIslam-Center at the University of Hamburg. His main fields of research are urbanism in pre- and early Roman, as well as Late Antique funerary inscriptions from North Africa, stone monuments of Roman Germany, Late Antique commemorative rituals in funerary contexts and modern perceptions of antiquity. He has published books on ancient Numidia and on a museum collection of Roman stone monuments in Mannheim, as well as many contributions to small finds, inscriptions and funerary contexts from Roman to Late Antique North Africa and the Germanies.

Jon C. Cubas Díaz is research associate at the Institute of Christian Archaeology and Byzantine Art History at the University of Göttingen. His current fields of research focus on funerary practices in Late Antique Asia Minor, with a special emphasis on Rough Cilicia, as well as Late Byzantine iconography and sacred architecture. He published a monograph and several articles on Late Roman funerary practices in Cilicia and the Near East, as well as on the Late Byzantine Akathistos Hymnos and intermedial compositional processes.

 

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Front matter
Contents
V-VI
Preface
IX-XI
Abbreviations of Regional Epigraphic and Archaeological Corpora, Databases
XIII-XVIII
Stefan Ardeleanu, Jon C. Cubas Díaz
Reconsidering Late Antique Funerary Habits
Trends, Debates and Perspectives
1-64
Achim Arbeiter
Bestattung und Kommemoration im frühchristlichen Hispanien
Materielle, ikonographische und inschriftliche Aspekte
65-106
Stefan Ardeleanu
Materializing Death in Late Antique North Africa
Epitaphs, Burial Types and Rituals in Changing Funerary Landscapes
107-157
Claudia Nauerth
Traditionelle Elemente in der christlichen Grabkultur Ägyptens
159-176
Davide Bianchi
Funerary Customs in Sacred Spaces
Privileged and Monastic Burials in the Provinces of “Palaestina” and “Arabia”
177-197
Pierre-Louis Gatier
L’épigraphie et les pratiques funéraires dans la province protobyzantine d’Arabie (IVe–VIIe s. apr. J.-C.)
199-232
Sylvain Destephen
The Funerary Epigraphic Landscape of Late Antique “Asia Minor”
233-247
Jon C. Cubas Díaz
Burying between “Lamos” and “Kalykadnos”
The Many Faces of the Late Antique Funerary Landscapes of Eastern Rough Cilicia
249-281
Jeremy Ott
Burying at Corinth in Late Antiquity
Evidence from the Late 5th to the Early 7th Century
283-323
Julia Valeva
Architecture and Decoration of Late Antique Tombs in the Diocese of “Thracia” and Eastern “Illyricum”
325-363
Donatella Nuzzo
Le iscrizioni sepolcrali della provincia “Apulia et Calabria” in età tardoantica (IV–VII s. d.C.)
365-381
Norbert Zimmermann
Die römischen Katakomben
Überlegungen zu Besitzverhältnissen, zur räumlichen Nutzung und zur Grabtypologie anhand der Katakomben Domitilla, SS. Marcellino e Pietro
383-406
Antonio Enrico Felle
Paesaggi epigrafici nelle necropoli della Roma tardoantica
Alcuni casi esemplari per una ‘epigrafia archeologica’
407-428
Fulvia Mainardis
Luoghi, monumenti, “epigraphic habit”
Note sulle necropoli tardoantiche della parte orientale della “Venetia” et “Histria”
429-457
Roland Prien
Shifting Burial Rites – Shifting Identities?
Late Antique Burial Practices on the Rhine Frontier
459-481
Jonas Osnabrügge
Transformation und Verschwinden
Inschriften in der Funerärkultur an Oberrhein und südlichem Mittelrhein in Spätantike und Frühmittelalter
483-506
Hiltrud Merten
Christliche Bestattungskultur in Spätantike und Frühmittelalter am Beispiel von St. Maximin in Trier
507-528
Morgane Uberti
Les épitaphes en leur “milieu”
Remarques à partir du matériel épigraphique de l’Aquitaine tardo-antique et alto-médiévale
529-564
Abstracts
565-576
Notes on Contributors
577-580
Index locorum
581-587
Index rerum
589-594

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