1 online resource (100 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
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Note
Previously issued in print: 2018.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary
This volume investigates the culture of feasting and the rituals of death among elite citizens in Iron Age Stamna, Greece, by studying archaeological finds from a large number of Protogeometric era tombs.
Audience
Specialized.
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Available through Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service.
Contents
The Banquet through the Burial Testimony.; A. The tomb evidence.; B. Material evidence of consumption: The ceramic dinner sets.; C. Bronze vessels.; D. Complementary feasting equipment: Spits, Hooks and Knives.; Fare thee well. The Stamna Timeless Farewell.; Feasting and Dying in a lebes; an institutional innovation with an international appeal.; Symposium, Religion and Cult portrayed through successive layers of burials, (semi)circular constructions and pyres.; 'Consuming' with the dead.; "In Darkness We Trust"; References.
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