Sandrine Huber_Nenna_VanAndringa.pdf (original) (raw)

2018, M.-D. NENNA, S. HUBER et William VAN ANDRINGA (éd.), Constituer la tombe, honorer les défunts en Méditerranée antique, Études Alexandrines 46, Alexandrie, Centre d’Études Alexandrines, 2018, 586 p., 163 ill. en noir et blanc et 250 en couleur. ISBN : 978-2-490128-02-0. ISSN : 1110-6441.

Recent work conducted on ancient funerary ensembles of the Mediterranean basin have led to the development of methods for detecting evidence of funerary practices and rites. It is now possible, thanks to archaeological documentation, to examine the ritual strategies applied by ancient societies to honour their dead. Close study of the architecture and decoration of tombs, of the structures (cremation spaces, tombs, graves, offering tables etc.), of the archaeological contexts (flooring, deposits, backfill etc.), and of the ceremonial remains (pottery, animal bones, carpological vestiges etc.), without omitting the relationships that can be established between these vestiges and the dead, have allowed us to reveal the tombs essential function as the setting of a funerary cult and a memorial site consecrated by the deposition of the remains of the deceased.