(Re-)Constructing funerary rituals in the Ancient Near East : proceedings of the first international symposium of the Tubingen Post-Graduate School "Symbols of the Dead" in May 2009 / edited by Peter Pfalzner, Herbert Niehr, Ernst Pernicka and Anne Wissing.

Includes bibliographical references.

(Re-)Constructing Funerary Rituals in the Ancient Near East. A Reflecting Review / Marlies Heinz -- Cult of the Ancestors and Funerary Practices at Ebla / Alfonso Archi -- A Potential Reconstruction of Funerary Rituals in the Monumental Mortuary Complex / Li Sang -- An Age of Heroes? Some Thoughts on Early Bronze Age Funerary Customs / Barbara Helwing -- Era of the Living Dead : Funerary Praxis and Symbol in Third Millennium BC Syria / Glenn M. Schwartz -- Funerary Practices from the End of the Early to the Middle Bronze Age in Northwestern Syria : the Middle Euphrates Valley / Candida Felli -- Ritual Aspects of Middle Bronze Age Burial Practices in the Hurrian City of Urkesh / Anne Wissing -- Funerary Rites and Cult of the Ancestors during the Amorite Period : the Evidence of the Royal Archives of Mari / Antoine Jacquet -- Thanatography and the Contextualization of Ritual Activities. Preliminary Observations on Mortuary Ritual Practice at Middle Bronze Age Jericho / Panayiotis Andreou -- Two Stelae Mentioning Mortuary Offerings from Ugarit (KTU 6.13 and 6.14) / Herbert Niehr -- Food and Libation Offerings for the Royal Dead in Ugarit / Sarah Lange -- Urban Mortuary Practices at Enkomi and Ugarit in the Second Millennium BC / Priscilla Keswani -- How Did They Bury the Kings of Qatna? / Peter Pfälzner -- Calcite-Alabaster as Grave Goods: Terminology and Sources / Tina Köster -- How to Become an Ancestor – Some Thoughts / Katharina Teinz -- “Asiatics will not lay you to rest.” Egyptian Funerary Ritual and the Question of Mutual Influence / Andrea Kucharek -- The Spatial Order in the Tomb Buildings of the Middle Elamite Period / Behzad Mofidi-Nasrabadi -- Concerning the Dead – How to Bury an Assyrian King? Possibilities and Limits of the Archaeological and Written Evidence in the Second and First Millenium BC / Steven Lundström -- The Role of Some Stelae in Phoenician Burial Customs / Matthias Lange -- No Cult of the Dead / Robert Wenning -- Kyrgyz Funerals and Memorials from an Ethnological Perspective / Roland Hardenberg.