Footsteps of the dead : iconography of beliefs about the afterlife and evidence for funerary practices in Etruscan Tarquinia

This thesis is a study of Etruscan attitudes to the afterlife, based on analysis of the funerary archaeology, architecture, and iconography of death from the ancient city of Tarquinia. The focus on one settlement allowed for a more precise reconstruction of funerary attitudes; it also avoided the pi...

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Main Author: Weir, Allison Jean
Other Authors: Woolf, Gregory
Published: University of St Andrews 2013
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.574833