Christian Burials in Western Galilee and the Emergence of Christian Local Mortuary Traditions in Late Antiquity: Preliminary Considerations at the Onset of a Research Project

Bollók, Ádám and Dayan, Ayelet (2022) Christian Burials in Western Galilee and the Emergence of Christian Local Mortuary Traditions in Late Antiquity: Preliminary Considerations at the Onset of a Research Project. HUNGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY, 11 (3). pp. 35-39. ISSN 2416-0296

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Abstract

The goal of the research project described and discussed here is the meticulous assessment of the tombs and cemetery sections investigated in two geographically fairly restricted regions: Western Galilee and the broader area of Caesarea Philippi, both lying in the former Late Roman province of Phoenicia. With the gen- erous support of the Israel Antiquities Authority, we were granted access to several mortuary assemblages that have remained unpublished or were only partially published. The meticulous assessment of these assem- blages provides a unique opportunity for studying mortuary practices in the Eastern Mediterranean on a micro-regional level as well as for tracing changes through half a millennium at a finer resolution. We expect to gain a deeper understanding of the region’s mortuary traditions and their change as well as of local atti- tudes to death among the region’s pagan and pagan-turned-Christian population across half a millennium.

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