Dans cet article, je souhaite me pencher sur les représentations funéraires attestées en Asie Mineure, notamment en Phrygie, qui ont la caractéristique de comporter, outre les objets de la vie quotidienne, des quenouilles, des fuseaux et des kalathos. Les objets de la vie quotidienne sont très utiles pour comprendre comment les personnes vivaient et travaillaient dans les provinces; les différences de représentation entre l’Ouest et l’Est méritent d’être reconnues comme la preuve de l’existence de types d’outils différents, et ce même pour un travail identique, bien qu’ils puissent avoir un sens particulier selon la région. En même temps, la présence des objets de filage, en particulier sur certains types de reliefs et de lieux, ne doit pas être sous-évaluée, en raison de la corrélation de leur signification dans la culture gréco-romaine et les sites attestés démontrant un phénomène intéressant.
Life and Death at Hierapolis. Norwegian excavations in a Hellenistic–Roman–Byzantine town in Asia Minor From 2007 to 2015 the University of Oslo, invited by The Italian Archaeological Mission at Hierapolis in Phrygia, conducted archaeological research in the North-East Necropolis at Hierapolis. The aim of the project was to document all visible tombs and sarcophagi of the necropolis and excavate selected tomb areas and tombs. The research, including osteological, DNA- and isotope-analyses, investigated the life of the inhabitants over a long period of time (ca. 100–1300 A.C.) with reference to tomb architecture, landscape perception, organization, entrepreneurship, ritual practices, genetic relations and origins, demography, health, sickness, diets, and individual movement patterns. Many of the aims are answered in the article, here shall only be mentioned two important discoveries: cremation has been documented as late as the 5th/6th centuries A.C., in periods of crisis perhaps used to signal pagan opposition to imposed Christian practices; the life conditions in the Roman/Early Byzantine period were much better than in that of the Middle Byzantine period.
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