Section outline

    • 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.