Publications

Stay tuned for project publications.

On the background of the project:

• de Jong, L. 2021, "Funerary traditions" in Blackwell Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East, ed. T. Kaizer, Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA, pp. 412-422.

• de Jong, L. 2020, "Wiens graf? Discrepanties tussen beeld, tekst, object, ruimte en menselijke resten in een Palmyreense tombe", Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane archeologie, vol. 62, pp. 11-20.

• de Jong, L. 2019, "Monuments, landscape, and memory: the emergence of tower-tombs in Tadmor-Palmyra", Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, vol. 62, no. 1, pp. 30-52.

• de Jong, L. 2018, "Death and burial in early Palmyra. Reflections on urbanization, imperialism, and the creation of memorial landscapes" in Death and Burial in Near East from Roman to Islamic Times. Research in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt, eds. C. Eger & M. Mackensen, Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden, pp. 11-28.

• de Jong, L. 2017, The Archaeology of Death in Roman Syria: Burial, Commemoration, and Empire, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

• de Jong, L. 2011 [2015], "The tombs of Roman Baalbek", Bulletin d'Archéologie et d'Architecture Libanaises (BAAL), vol. 15, pp. 239-256.

• de Jong, L. 2010, "Performing Death in Tyre: The Life and Afterlife of a Roman Cemetery in the Province of Syria", American Journal of Archaeology (AJA), vol. 114, no. 4, pp. 597-630.

• de Jong, L. 2001, "Aspects of Roman Burial Practices in Beirut: excavations at BEY 022", ARAM-Periodical, vol. 13, pp. 293-312.

• Dijkstra, T.M., 2017. ‘Strategies of Remembering in the Creation of a Colonial Society in Patras’. In T. M. Dijkstra et al., eds. Strategies of Remembering in Greece under Rome (100 BC - 100 AD). Publications of the Netherlands Institute at Athens VI. Leiden: Sidestone Press, pp. 37–48.

• Dimakis, N. & T.M. Dijkstra (eds.), 2020. Mortuary Variability and Social Diversity in Ancient Greece. Oxford: Archaeopress.

• Dijkstra, T.M., I.N.I Kuin, M. Moser & D. Weidgenannt (eds.), 2017. Strategies of Remembering in Greece under Rome (100 BC - 100 AD), Leiden: Sidestone Press.

• Hürmüzlü, B., Sönmez, B., Köker, H., Kalkman, P., Akaslan, M. & de Jong, L. 2019, "Work at the Northwest Necropolis of Seleukeia Sidera in 2018 - Seleukeia Sidera Kuzey Nekropolisi 2018 Yılı Çalışmaları", Anmed. News Bulletin on Archaeology from Mediterranean Anatolia (Anadolu Akdenizi Arkeoloji Haberleri Bülteni), vol. 17, pp. 83-89.

• Hürmüzlü, B., Akaslan, M., Köker, H., de Jong, L., Ayaşan, M., Sönmez, B. & Köker, İ.A. 2018, "Work at the Ancient City of Seleukeia Sidera in 2017 - Seleukeia Sidera Antik Kenti 2017 Yılı Çalışmaları", Anmed. News Bulletin on Archaeology from Mediterranean Anatolia (Anadolu Akdenizi Arkeoloji Haberleri Bülteni), vol. 16, pp. 234-241.

Publications that inspire us:

• Aliquot, J. & Yon, J. 2016, "Inscriptions grecques et latines du musée de l’American University of Beirut", Berytus, vol. 56, pp. 149-234

• Ackers, H.I. 2018, "The face of the deceased. Portrait busts in Roman tombs" in The materiality of mourning: cross-disciplinary perspectives, eds. Z. Newby & R.E. Toulson, Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 121-147.

• Barham, N. 2018, "Esteemed ornament: An overlooked value for approaching Roman visual culture" in Ornament and figure in Graeco-Roman art: rethinking visual ontologies in classical antiquity, eds. N. Dietrich & M. Squire, De Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 279-298.

• Bell, C. 1992, Ritual theory, ritual practice, Oxford University Press, New York.

• Bielfeldt, R. 2019, "Vivi fecerunt. Roman Sarcophagi for and by the Living" in Flesheaters. An International Symposium on Roman Sarcophagi. University of California at Berkeley 18–19 September 2009, ed. C.H. Hallett, Dr Ludwig Reichert, Wiesbaden, pp. 65-96.

• Blömer, M. & Raja, R. 2019, "Shifting the Paradigms: Towards a New Agenda in the Study of the Funerary Portraiture in Greater Roman Syria" in Funerary Portraiture in Greater Roman Syria, eds. M. Blömer & R. Raja, Brepols, Turnhout, pp. 5-26.

• Budja, M. 2010, "The archaeology of death: from ‘social personae’ to ‘relational personhood’", Documenta Praehistorica, vol. XXXVII, pp. 43-54.

• Casella, E. & Croucher, K. 2011, "Beyond human: The materiality of personhood", Feminist Theory, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 209-217.

• Chioffi, L. 2014, "Death and Burial" in The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, eds. C. Bruun & J. Edmondson, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 627-648.

• Crawford, C.D. 2014, "Relating Image and Word in Ancient Mesopotamia" in Critical approaches to ancient Near Eastern art, eds. B.A. Brown & M.H. Feldman, De Gruyter, Boston, pp. 241-264.

• Davies, G. 2011, "Before Sarcophagi" in Life, death and representation: some new work on Roman sarcophagi, eds. J. Elsner & J. Huskinson, De Gruyter, New York, pp. 25-51.

• Elias, N. 2016, Pratiques funéraires et identités biologiques à Berytus et à Botrys à l'époque romaine (Liban, Ier siècle av. J.-C. - IVème siècle apr. J.-C.), PhD thesis, Université de Bordeaux.

• Elsner, J. 2018, "Ornament, figure and mise en abyme on Roman sarcophagi" in Ornament and figure in Graeco-Roman art: rethinking visual ontologies in classical antiquity, eds. N. Dietrich & M. Squire, De Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 353-391.

• Felle, A.E. 2017, "Visual features of inscriptions. An issue for EDB (and EAGLE)" in Digital and Traditional Epigraphy in Context. Proceedings of the EAGLE 2016 International Conference, eds. S. Orlandi, R. Santucci, F. Mambrini & P.M. Liuzzo, Sapienza University Press, , pp. 131-144.

• Fowler, C. 2004, The Archaeology of Personhood: An Anthropological Approach, Taylor & Francis Group, London.

• Gell, A. 1998, Art and agency: an anthropological theory, Clarendon Press, Oxford ;.

• Gwiazda, M. 2013, "Grave monuments from Jiyeh (Porphyreon) and the sepulchral art of Sidon’s chora", Archeologia, vol. 64, pp. 53-66.

• Heyn, M.K. 2010, "Gesture and Identity in the Funerary Art of Palmyra", American Journal of Archaeology (AJA), vol. 114, no. 4, pp. 631-661.

• Hodder, I. 2012, Entangled: an archaeology of the relationships between humans and things, Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA.

• Hürmüzlü, B., De Giorgi, A. & Iversen, P.A. 2009, "New Research in Northwestern Pisidia: Ancient Konane (Conana) and its Territory", Colloquium Anatolicum, vol. 8, pp. 235-256.

• Kaizer, T. 2010, "Funerary Cults at Palmyra" in Cultural Messages in the Graeco-Roman World, eds. O.J. Hekster & S.T.A.M. Mols, BABESCH Suppl. 15, Peeters, Leuven, pp. 23-31.

• Kalenderian, V. 2020, Resurrecting Berytus. A Contextual Analysis of Burials from Roman Beirut, PhD thesis, University of Groningen.

• Kersel, M.M. 2015, "Storage Wars: Solving the Archaeological Curation Crisis?", Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 42-54.

• Köse, V. 2005, Die Nekropolen und Grabdenkmäler von Sagalassos in Pisidien in hellenistischer und römischer Zeit, Brepols, Turnhout.

• Krag, S. 2018, Funerary representations of Palmyrene women: from the first century BC to the third century AD, Brepols, Turnhout.

• Larsson, Å.M. 2015, "Opening Ancient Death Ways: Caring for the Dead" in Ancient death ways. Proceedings of the workshop on archaeology and mortuary practices Uppsala, 16–17 May 2013, eds. K. von Hackwitz & R. Peyroteo-Stjerna, Uppsala University, Uppsala, pp. 11-17.

• Latour, B. 1993, We have never been modern, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

• Newby, Z. 2007, "Introduction" in Art and inscriptions in the ancient world, eds. Z. Newby & R. Leader-Newby, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 1-16.

• Nilsson Stutz, L. 2014, "A PROPER BURIAL. Some Thoughts on Changes in Mortuary Ritual, and how Archaeology can begin to understand them" in Death and changing rituals: function and meaning in ancient funerary practices, eds. J.R. Brandt, H. Roland, M. Prusac & J.R. Brandt, Oxbow Books, Oxford, pp. 1-16.

• Pavel, C. 2017, "Visual Models in Archaeology and Harmonization of Archaeological and Literary Data", Archaeology and Text: A Journal for the Integration of Material Culture with Written Documents in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East, vol. 1, no. 67, pp. 94.

• Raja, R. 2019, "Funerary portraiture in Palmyra: Portrait habit at a cross-road or a signifier of local identity?" in Funerary Portraiture in Greater Roman Syria, eds. M. Blömer & R. Raja, Brepols, Turnhout, pp. 95-110.

• Rebay-Salisbury, K., Sørensen, M.L.S. & Hughes, J. (eds) 2010, Body parts and bodies whole: changing relations and meanings, Oxbow, Oxford.

• Robb, J. 2013, "Creating Death: An Archaeology of Dying" in The Oxford handbook of the archaeology of death and burial, eds. L. Nilsson Stutz & S. Tarlow, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 1-14.

• Sanders, S.L. 2013, "The Appetites of the Dead: West Semitic Linguistic and Ritual Aspects of the Katumuwa Stele", Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (BASOR), vol. 369, pp. 85-105.

• Squire, M. 2018, "‘To haunt, to startle, and way-lay’: Approaching ornament and figure in Graeco-Roman art" in Ornament and figure in Graeco-Roman art: rethinking visual ontologies in classical antiquity, eds. N. Dietrich & M. Squire, De Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 1-35.