Hellenistic Funerary Culture in Pergamon and the Aeolis

The necropolises and burial mounds of Pergamon and the neighbouring cities are a valuable archaeological heritage and an important source for our understanding of the social, political and cultural dynamics in a key region of Hellenistic Asia Minor. This volume brings together contributions from interdisciplinary funerary archaeological research in Pergamon and the Aeolis. On this basis, a picture emerges of a funerary culture which, although uniform in its basic features, was diversified at the local level. With its special focus, the volume offers for the first time a comparative regional study of Hellenistic funerary culture in Asia Minor.