Life and Death in Asia Minor in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Times

J. Rasmus Brandt is Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, Conservation, and History, University of Oslo. Erika Hagelberg is Professor of Evolutionary Biology, University of Oslo. Gro Bjørnstad is Divisional Engineer at the Department of Forensic Biology, Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Sven Ahrens is a classical archaeologists and Senior Curator at the Norwegian Maritime Museum.

These articles offer the possibility, especially to historians reliant on written sources, to have valuable data quantitative and objective information for better estimation of diet, living conditions, structure of families and the relationship to death of populations of Asia Minor during Antiquity and the Middle Ages, in particular in the city of Hierapolis of Phrygia.

• Acknowledgements          viiAuthors and Addresses         ixIntroduction. Dead bodies – Live data: Some reflections from the sideline     xiiiJ. Rasmus Brandt PART I: From life to death. Death and the social and funerary setting The  Sanctuary of St Philip in Hierapolis and the tombs of saints in Anatolian cities      Francesco D’Andria 2. Necropoleis from the territory of Hierapolis in Phrygia: New data from archaeological surveysGiuseppe Scardozzi 3. The South-East Necropolis of Hierapolis of Phrygia: Planning, typologies and construction techniquesDonatella Ronchetta 4. Tomb 163d in the North Necropolis of Hierapolis of Phrygia. An insight into the funerary gestures and practices of the Jewish Diaspora in Asia Minor in Late Antiquity and the Proto-Byzantine periodCaroline Laforest, Dominique Castex, and Frédérique Blaizot 5. Tomb ownership in Lycia; site selection and burial rights with selected rock tombs and epigraphical material from TlosGül Işın and Ertan Yıldız 6. The sarcophagus of Alexandros, son of Philippos. An important discovery in the Lycian city of TlosTaner Korkut and Çilem Uygun 7. ‘Till death do them part’: Reconstructing Graeco-Roman family life from funerary inscriptions of AphrodisiasEsen Öğüş 8. Social status and tomb monuments in Hierapolis and Roman Asia MinorSven Ahrens 9. New evidence for non-elite burial patterns in central TurkeyAndrew L. Goldman 10. Reflections on the mortuary landscape of Ephesus. The archaeology of death in a Roman MetropolisMartin Steskal 11. Christian burials in a pagan context at AmoriumChristopher S. Lightfoot 12. Romans, Christians, and pilgrims at Hierapolis in Phrygia. A funerary journey of mental changesCamilla Cecilie Wenn, Sven Ahrens, and J. Rasmus Brandt    PART II: From death to life. Man and ancient life conditions 13. Analysis of DNA in human skeletal material from HierapolisGro Bjørnstad and Erika Hagelberg 14. Isotopic investigations of human diet and mobility at the site of Hierapolis, TurkeyMegan Wong, Elise Naumann, Klervia Jaouen, and Michael Richards 15. Diet in Roman Pergamon using stable isotope (C, N, S), osteoarchaeological and historical data – preliminary resultsJohanna Propstmeier, Olaf Nehlich, Michael Richards, Gisela Grupe, Gundula H. Müldner, and Wolf-Rüdiger Teegen 16. Pergamon – Kyme – Priene: Health and disease from the Roman to the Late Byzantine period in different locations of Asia MinorWolf-Rüdiger Teegen 17. Toothache, back pain, and fatal injuries – what skeletons tell about life and death at Roman and Byzantine HierapolisHenrike Kiesewetter 18. Health and disease of infants and children in Byzantine Anatolia between AD 600 and 1350Michael Schultz and Tyede H. Schmidt-Schultz 19. Infant and child skeletons from the Lower City Church at Byzantine AmoriumF. Arzu Demirel 20. The wrestler from Ephesus: Osteobiography of a man from the Roman period based on his anthropological and palaeopathological recordJan Nováček, Kristina Scheelen, and Michael Schultz General Index