Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Introduction: Dead bodies – Live data: Some reflections from the sideline (J. Rasmus Brandt)

PART I: FROM LIFE TO DEATH: DEATH AND THE SOCIAL AND FUNERARY SETTING

1.

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 surveys

Giuseppe Scardozzi

3.

The South-East Necropolis of Hierapolis in Phrygia: Planning, typologies, and construction techniques

Donatella Ronchetta

4.

Tomb 163d in the North Necropolis of Hierapolis in Phrygia: An insight into the funerary gestures and practices of the Jewish Diaspora in Asia Minor in late Antiquity and the proto-Byzantine period

Caroline Laforest, Dominique Castex, and Frédérique Blaizot

5.

Tomb ownership in Lycia: Site selection and burial rights with selected rock tombs and epigraphic material from Tlos

Gül Işın and Ertan Yıldız

6.

The sarcophagus of Alexandros, son of Philippos: An important discovery in the Lycian city of Tlos

Taner Korkut and Çilem Uygun

7.

‘Til death do them part’: Reconstructing Graeco-Roman family life from funerary inscriptions of Aphrodisias

Esen Öğüş

8.

Social status and tomb monuments in Hierapolis and Roman Asia Minor

Sven Ahrens

9.

New evidence for non-elite burial patterns in central Turkey

Andrew L. Goldman

10.

Reflections on the mortuary landscape of Ephesus: The archaeology of death in a Roman metropolis

Martin Steskal

11.

Christian burials in a pagan context at Amorium

Christopher S. Lightfoot

12.

Romans, Christians, and pilgrims at Hierapolis in Phrygia: Changes in funerary practices and mental processes

Camilla Cecilie Wenn, Sven Ahrens, and J. Rasmus Brandt

PART II: FROM DEATH TO LIFE: DEMOGRAPHY, HEALTH, AND LIVING CONDITIONS

13.

Analysis of DNA in human skeletal material from Hierapolis

Gro Bjørnstad and Erika Hagelberg

14.

Isotopic investigations of human diet and mobility at the site of Hierapolis, Turkey

Megan Wong, Elise Naumann, Klervia Jaouen, and Michael Richards

15.

Diet in Roman Pergamon: Preliminary results using stable isotope (C, N, S), osteoarchaeological and historical data

Johanna Propstmeier, Olaf Nehlich, Michael P. 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 Minor

Wolf-Rüdiger Teegen

17.

Toothache, back pain, and fatal injuries: What skeletons reveal about life and death at Roman and Byzantine Hierapolis

Henrike Kiesewetter

18.

Health and disease of infants and children in Byzantine Anatolia between AD 600 and 1350

Michael Schultz and Tyede H. Schmidt-Schultz

19.

Infant and child skeletons from the Lower City Church at Byzantine Amorium

F. Arzu Demirel

20.

The wrestler from Ephesus: Osteobiography of a man from the Roman period based on his anthropological and palaeopathological record

Jan Nováček, Kristina Scheelen, and Michael Schultz