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University of Wisconsin Press Couched in Death: Klinai and Identity in Anatolia and Beyond (Wisconsin Studies in Classics (Hardcover))

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Review "A tour de force of meticulous research, broad reach, and thoughtful interpretation. Couched in Death will remain the definitive publication of klinai and kline tombs for decades to come."--Elspeth R.M. Dusinberre, author of Aspects of Empire in Achaemenid Sardis"Comprehensive and impressive. . . . This work provides new angles for future research on Anatolian funerary architecture, klinae, banqueting, and Anatolian-Persian cultural identity."--L'Antiquité Classique Product Description In Couched in Death, Elizabeth P. Baughan offers the first comprehensive look at the earliest funeral couches in the ancient Mediterranean world. These sixth- and fifth-century BCE klinai from Asia Minor were inspired by specialty luxury furnishings developed in Archaic Greece for reclining at elite symposia. It was in Anatolia, however - in the dynastic cultures of Lydia and Phrygia and their neighbours - that klinai first gained prominence not as banquet furniture but as burial receptacles. For tombs, wooden couches were replaced by more permanent media cut from bedrock, carved from marble or limestone, or even cast in bronze. The rich archaeological findings of funerary klinai throughout Asia Minor raise intriguing questions about the social and symbolic meanings of this burial furniture. Why did Anatolian elites want to bury their dead on replicas of Greek furniture? Do the klinai found in Anatolian tombs represent Persian influence after the conquest of Anatolia, as previous scholarship has suggested? Bringing a diverse body of understudied and unpublished material together for the first time, Baughan investigates the origins and cultural significance of kline-burial and charts the stylistic development and distribution of funerary klinai throughout Anatolia. She contends that funeral couch burials and banqueter representations in funerary art helped construct hybridised Anatolian-Persian identities in Achaemenid Anatolia, and reassesses the origins of the custom of the reclining banquet itself, a defining feature of ancient Mediterranean civilisations. Baughan explores the relationships of Anatolian funeral couches with similar traditions in Etruria and Macedonia as well as their ""afterlife"" in the modern era, and her study also includes a comprehensive survey of evidence for ancient klinai in general, based on analysis of more than three hundred klinai representations on Greek vases as well as archaeological and textual sources. About the Author Elizabeth P. Baughan is assistant professor of classics and archaeology at the University of Richmond. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2004. She is the author of several chapters and articles about tomb furniture and banqueting imagery, including ""Sculpted Symposiasts of Ionia"" in American Journal of Archaeology. Since 2009 she has served as field supervisor for the Hacimusalar Höyük excavations in southwestern Turkey.

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Brand: University of Wisconsin Press
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ASIN: 0299291804
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Themes & Concepts
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Release Date: 30 October 2013
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