Power and Its Afterlife: Tombs in Hellenistic Palestine
Jerusalem's enormous second temple period necropolis includes several dozen "display tombs"-elaborate rock-cut monuments that stand out on account of their size, workmanship, and prominent positions. Such structures, which first appear in the later second century BCE represent a signi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press
2002
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Near Eastern archaeology
Year: 2002, Volume: 65, Issue: 2, Pages: 138-148 |
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| Summary: | Jerusalem's enormous second temple period necropolis includes several dozen "display tombs"-elaborate rock-cut monuments that stand out on account of their size, workmanship, and prominent positions. Such structures, which first appear in the later second century BCE represent a significant shift in Jewish tomb architecture. Its genesis and context may be traced to the mid-second-century BCE political transformation of Jonathan from Maccabean rebel to Hasmonean dynast. Upon Jonathan's death in 143 BCE, his brother Simon built an extravagant monument over the family tomb in Mode'in (I Macc 13: 27-29) inspired by two splendid imperial models: The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus and the Belevi Monument near Ephesus. In so doing, he introduced into Palestine the notion of the tomb as a focus for conspicuous display. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-5404 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Near Eastern archaeology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3210875 |