[Antiquitas] [HAS] Friday Feb 3 @ 16h: William Van Andringa -- "Archaeology of Memory in the Roman necropolis of Porta Nocera at Pompeii"

[Bonnie, Rick]

Dear all,

We kindly welcome you to our next Helsinki Archaeology Seminar lecture, which will start on Friday February 3 at 16:15h in Unioninkatu 38, lecture room F115. Our speaker is Prof. William Van Andringa of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.

Archaeology of Memory in the Roman necropolis of Porta Nocera at Pompeii

The archaeological program on the Roman cemetery of Porta Nocera is justified by the excellent state of preservation of the archaeological remains, which offers the perfect opportunity to examine all the information available about the history of the cemetery and its occupants, the arrangement of the tombs, and the organisation of sepulchral space (e.g. architecture, inscriptions, funerary artefacts). All this gives crucial information on the way individual and family memory were displayed. The important amount of information recovered for 15 years now also concerns the various funerary and ritual activities that can be reconstructed on the basis of the material retrieved both on the ground levels around the tombs, on the cremation areas and in the fill of the graves. The study of this material allows for quite an accurate reconstruction of the ceremonies performed in the cemetery.

Please feel free to forward this message to anyone who might be interested. We hope to see you all then!

Best wishes,
Marja Ahola & Rick Bonnie
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