Dining & Death: interdisciplinary perspectives on the 'Funerary Banquet' in ancient art, burial and belief

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The conference brought together scholars from multiple disciplines (Classical Archaeology, Sinology, Egyptology, Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology) in order to explore the varied forms and meanings of banqueting imagery in tomb paintings and sculptures, with a particular focus on the relationship between the images and beliefs about death. The ultimate aims were to compare forms and meanings of the images, as well as approaches and interpretations prevailing in the different disciplines represented.

• Publisher: Oxford Classics, Archaeology and Somerville College
• Publication date: 2010-01-01
• Event location: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, St. Giles', Oxford
• Subjects: Perso-Anatolian art; Roman art; afterlife; Syro-Hittite art; meal of the dead; Greek art; Hellenistic art; Graeco-Persian art; Asia Minor; wall paintings; Chinese archaeology; Funerary Banquet; interpretation; Neo-Hittite art; heroisation; Totenmahl; tombstones; Etruscan art; heros; Western Anatolian art; Near Eastern archaeology; Egyptology; feasting at the grave; Greco-Persian art; art history; eschatology; Classical archaeology; Roman archaeology; death; Etruria; grave cult; heroic