Topic 7: Memorialization, alterity and the afterlife

Katz, Dina. 2025. “The Mesopotamians’ Perception of Death in Metaphor.” In Death Imagined, edited by Karolina Sekita and Katherine E. Southwood. Ancient Perceptions of Death and Dying. Liverpool University Press. JSTOR. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.36233612.8.

Lange, Sarah. 2012. “Food and Libation Offerings for the Royal Dead in Ugarit.” In (Re-)Constructing Funerary Rituals in the Ancient Near East. Proceedings of the First International Symposium of the Tübingen Post-Graduate School “Symbols of the Dead” in May 2009, edited by Peter Pfälzner, Herbert Niehr, Ernst Pernicka, and Anne Wissing. Harrassowitz Verlag.

Lucarelli, Rita. 2025. “The Perception of the Human Body in the Ancient Egyptian Funerary Literature and the Book of the Dead.” In Death Imagined, edited by Karolina Sekita and Katherine E. Southwood. Ancient Perceptions of Death and Dying. Liverpool University Press. JSTOR. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.36233612.9.

Pfälzner, Peter. 2016. “Royal Corpses, Royal Ancestors and the Living: The Transformation of the Dead in Ancient Syria.” In How to Cope with Death: Mourning and Funerary Practices in the Ancient Near East. Proceedings of the International Workshop Firenze, 5th - 6th December 2013, edited by Candida Felli. Edizioni ETS.

Ristvet, Lauren. Ritual, Performance, and Politics in the Ancient Near East. Cambridge University Press, 2014. (Chapter 2, pages 40-42 and 67-91)

Tsukimoto, A. 2010. “Peace for the Dead, or Kispu(m) Again, Orient.” Report of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan XLV: 101–10.

Sader, Hélène. 2005. Iron Age Funerary Stelae from Lebanon. Vol. 11. Cuadernos de Arqueología Mediterránea. Edicions Bellaterra. (Chapter 1-read in detail pages 15-21, scan pages 21-88 on the description and dating of the stele and pick out 10 stelae you would like to discuss in class)

Struble, E. J., and V. R. Herrmann. 2009. “An Eternal Feast at Sam’al: The New Iron Age Mortuary Stele from Zincirli in Context.” Bulletin of the American Schools Of Oriental Research 356: 15–49.

Suriano, Matthew. 2018. A History of Death in the Hebrew Bible. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190844738.001.0001. (Chapter 3 only)

Tarlow, Sarah. 2023. “The Names of the Dead: Identity, Privacy and the Ethics of Anonymity in Exhibiting the Dead Body.” Public Archaeology 22 (1): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/14655187.2023.2268384.