Elite Mortuary Culture at Susa
An Analysis of Early Middle Bronze Age Clay Coffin Burials
Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 978-3-447-12238-2
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Buch. Hardcover
2024
In englischer Sprache
Umfang: XX, 296 S.
Format (B x L): 21 x 29,7 cm
Gewicht: 1399
Verlag: Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN: 978-3-447-12238-2
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The study begins with a discussion of the possibilities and constraints of using the legacy data, and then proceeds to an analysis of the typology, chronology, site distribution, and frequency of the coffins. Next it examines their rich and varied grave good assemblages, and the mortuary rites and demographic profile associated with their use. Finally, it reflects on the broader significance of the overturned clay coffin practice, concluding that it can be seen as a key signature of Susa’s bicultural society, offering a new perspective on Elamite and Mesopotamian cultural connectivity when the city left the political embrace of Mesopotamia’s Ur III dynasts at the end of the Early Bronze Age and became the lowland seat of the Elamite rulers from the Zagros Mountains. The mortuary behavior associated with the coffins, initially characterized by an unprecedented consumption of wealth, emerges as a response to new socio-political and socio-economic conditions both locally and across the Near East in the pivotal early years of the Middle Bronze Age.
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