Investigating Karanis Necropolis in a Pagan Christian Context

نوع المستند : المقالة الأصلية

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Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Menofia University

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        Cemeteries have long interested scholars from such diverse fields as Archaeology, art history, cultural geography, anthropology, history, and those concerned with heritage conservation. These experts recognize that by studying cemeteries and their artifacts, they can learn a culture’s attitudes toward life through its responses to death. They understand that a society’s behavior in the interment of its dead reveals its cultural values. Every aspect of the cemetery reflects the culture that created it, even its orientation. The following paper is an attempt to throw light on the necropolis of ancient Karanis since no comprehensive archaeological or descriptive documentation was previously done. All scanty references depended on a weak reconnaissance derived from the 1900's work of B.P. Grenfell, A.S. Hunt and D.G. Hogarth. The main aim of the new investigation therefore is a detailed consideration of the necropolis, its dating, its artifacts and also marking it on the general sketch plan of the site trying to provide further insight into mortuary practices adopted by the community of Karanis in its late phase of occupation in the light of new discoveries' investigation side by side with the proceeding of data gathered from the old excavations and what is known of such practices in Egypt.

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