TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oliver,G.J.
TI  - The epigraphy of death: studies in the history and society of Greece and Rome 
SN  - 9781846313042
AV  - DF101 .E65 2000eb
U1  - 938 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Liverpool
PB  - Liverpool University Press
KW  - Funeral rites and ceremonies
KW  - Greece
KW  - History
KW  - Rome
KW  - Tombs
KW  - Death
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Funérailles
KW  - Rites et cérémonies
KW  - Grèce
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Mort
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Ancient
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - fast
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Antike
KW  - gnd
KW  - Grabinschrift
KW  - Aufsatzsammlung
KW  - Grabplastik
KW  - Grafstèles
KW  - gtt
KW  - Klassieke oudheid
KW  - Inscripties
KW  - Sociale aspecten
KW  - Dodenbezorging
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Mœurs et coutumes
KW  - Antiquités
KW  - Rome (Empire)
KW  - Römisches Reich
KW  - Griechenland
KW  - Altertum
KW  - Electronic book
KW  - Handbook
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Handbooks and manuals
KW  - gtlm
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Guides et manuels
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; An Introduction to the Epigraphy of Death: Funerary Inscriptions as Evidence; Graham Oliver --; The Times They Are A'Changing: Developments in Fifth-Century Funerary Sculpture; Karen Stears --; Athenian Funerary Monuments: Style, Grandeur, and Cost; Graham Oliver --; Milesian Immigrants in Late Hellenistic and Roman Athens; Torben Vestergaard --; Note to Chapter Four The Archaeology of Miletus; Alan Greaves --; Commemoration of Infants on Roman Funerary Inscriptions; Margaret King --; Inscription and Sculpture: the Construction of Identity in the Military Tombstones of Roman Mainz; Valerie Hope --; The Inscriptions on the Ash Chests of the Ince Blundell Hall Collection: Ancient and Modern; Glenys Davies; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - Tombstones provide the largest single category of epigraphical evidence from the ancient world. However, epigraphy? the study of inscriptions? remains, for many students of history and archaeology, an abstruse subject. By marrying epigraphy and death, the contributors to this collection hope to encourage a wider audience to consider the importance of inscribed tombstones
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