Hellenistic Funerary Culture in Pergamon and the Aeolis: A Collection of Current Approaches and New Results
https://doi.org/10.34780/b60xwm79
Synopsis
The necropolises and the large burial mounds of Pergamon and the Aeolian cities of Aigai, Kyme and Elaia are an important archaeological heritage and a primary source for our understanding of the social, political and cultural dynamics in a key region of Hellenistic Asia Minor. This volume brings together sixteen contributions on the methodology of interdisciplinary funerary archaeology, on funerary inscriptions and human remains, and on burials and funerary landscapes from Pergamon, the Aeolis and the neighbouring cities Mytilene and Antandros. On this basis, a picture emerges of a funerary culture that is uniform in its basic features and shows no fundamental differences between cities with fictitious Greek origins on the one hand and a Hellenistic capital in Anatolian Mysia on the other. Rather, a diversification at the local level becomes clear, which contributed to a remarkable diversity in memorial culture.
With its historical and landscape focus, this volume is the first to offer a comparative regional study of Hellenistic funerary culture in Asia Minor. With the interdisciplinary definition of funerary archaeology, it can show perspectives on how the complex social and cultural-historical phenomenon of death and memory can be re-evaluated in the future on the basis of a broad dataset.
Keywords:
Pergamon, Aeolis, nekropolises, funeral culture, tumuliChapters
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Foreword
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Hellenistic Funerary Culture in Pergamon and the Aeolis: Current Approaches, New Results, and the Outline of a Synthesis
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Funerary Practices: Their Study and Their Potential
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Palaeopathology and Archaeothanatology
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Geophysical Prospection of Monumental Burial Mounds
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The Necropolis of Aigai. Archaeology of an Exceptional Funerary Landscape
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Inscribing Death in Southern Aeolis. Remarks on the Funerary Inscriptions from Kyme and Myrina
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The Antandros Necropolis: An Evaluation in Light of Research Carried Out in 2001–2018
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The Necropoleis of Mytilene from the Archaic to the Roman Periods. Spatial Organisation and Interpretative Issues
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Funerary Landscapes of Hellenistic Pergamon and Elaia
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The Longue Durée of Funeral Culture: A Recently Discovered Burial Precinct at Pergamon
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Funerary Assemblages and Personal Identities. The Case Study of Tumuli 2 and 3 in Pergamon
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The Monumental Grave Mound Yığma Tepe – Results of the Geophysical-archaeological Cooperation
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The X-Tepe of Pergamon: Magnetic Investigation of an Intermediate-size Tumulus
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Where Are the Dead of Pergamon? Remarks on the Funerary Inscriptions from Pergamon
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Grave Monuments, Funerary Representation and Social Stratification in Hellenistic Times
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Demography and Health Status of Hellenistic People from Pergamon, Elaia and Aigai
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Bibliography
Published
November 12, 2025
Series
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