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Mural Painting of a Roman Lady from Viminacium: From Roman Matron to the Modern Icon

Author(s)
Jelena Anđelković Grašar 1 ✉,
Milica Tapavički-Ilić 1
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2015/2
OpenArch Special Digest 2015 Issue 2
***During the late antiquity, fresco decorated tombs had a prominent place in funerary practice. All of the scenes and motifs within tombs are dedicated to the deceased persons and their apotheosis. Usually painted on the western wall of the tomb, these portraits could represent a deceased married couple or...

Get into the Grave: Notions of Community Social Identity in a Late 3rd Millennium Site, Derived from an Experimental Carving of a Shaft Tomb at Ramat Bet Shemesh (Israel)

Author(s)
Yoav Tsur 1,
Nofar Kahalani 1,
Yitzhak Paz2 ✉,
Roi Nickelberg2
Publication Date
EXARC Journal Issue 2015/1
Khirbet el-Alia is a large mound, located north-east of Tel Yarmouth, in the Ramat Bet Shemesh region of Israel. An excavation that was conducted north of the mound revealed the remains of a settlement and an adjacent cemetery of shaft graves, dating back to the Intermediate Bronze Age (IBA)...