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- Title
THE ANTHROPOID SARCOPHAGI OF AMRIT / ARADOS (SYRIA): A STUDY OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXTUALIZATION.
- Authors
Mustafa, Bashar
- Abstract
The focus of this paper is an analysis of Phoenician anthropomorphic sarcophagi located in the ancient territory of the Phoenician necropolis site of Amrit (Syria) through exhaustive archaeological contextualization of each sarcophagus. Our goal is to raise awareness of the need to bring scant documentation of findings from previous centuries into a condition more consistent with current historicalarchaeological contexts. We begin with findings documented in the nineteenth century and map the evolution of the changing approach of studies related to these enigmatic funerary objects. This will allow us to propose possible reasons for and causes of the treatment of these funerary containers more as artwork than archeologically significant objects. These sarcophagi will also be examined in order to establish their socio-ideological significance.
- Subjects
ARCHAEOLOGICAL research; SARCOPHAGI
- Publication
Scientific Culture, 2016, Vol 2, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
2408-0071
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5281/zenodo.44894