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1	To bury a child : A spatial analysis of child burials at Giza and Saqqara / Att begrava ett barn : En rumslig analys av barngravar i Giza och Saqqara Hedin Käck, Mimmi January 2024 (has links) This thesis investigates if there is any age segmentation among child burials. This is done through a spatial analysis, to better understand children in a mortuary space. The two cemeteries that will be investigated are the Wall of the Crow in Late Period Giza and the so-called Upper Necropolis in Saqqara during the Ptolemaic Period. The study includes 83 child burials from Saqqara and 73 child burials from Giza, of newborns to children of 14 years of age. This is achieved by deconstructing the data available to clarify the bond that exists and/or does not exist between the burials. In addition, child mortality and burial customs will be discussed to better understand burial rates in comparison to mortality rates. Finally, to understand properly the cemetery space, and children as a sub-set in it, the wider constructed landscapes are considered. The outcome of this thesis was that no cemetery had any age segmentation. / Den här uppsatsen utforskar om det finns någon ålderssegmentering bland barngravar. Detta utförs genom en rumslig analys för att bättre förstå barn i begravningsutrymmet. De två begravningsplatserna som undersöks är Wall of the Crow under Sentiden i Giza och den så kallade Övre Nekropolen i Saqqara, daterad till Ptolemeiska Riket. Studien inkluderar 83 barngravar från Saqqara och 73 barngravar från Giza, från nyfödda till 14 års ålder. Detta uppnås av att rekonstruera den tillgängliga data för att klargöra bandet som finns/inte finns mellan gravarna. Dessutom kommer barnadödlighet och begravningsseder diskuteras för att bättre förstå gravarna i jämförelse med dödlighet. Slutligen, för att förstå begravningsutrymmet bättre och barnen som en del av det, kommer de bredare konstruerade landskapen beaktas. Resultatet av uppsatsen var att ingen av begravningsplatserna hade någon ålderssegmentering. Child burials child mortality age landscape Late Period Ptolemaic Period Giza Saqqara Barngravar barnadödlighet ålder landskap Giza Saqqara Sentiden Ptolemeiska Riket Humanities and the Arts Humaniora och konst
2	Barnskrik i Hades? : Attityder till döda spädbarn i antika Grekland. / Screaming babies in Hades? : Attitudes to dead infants in ancient Greece. Svedlund, Sofie January 2020 (has links) In Homer’s work Iliad, Achilles is harassed in the sleep by the ghost of his friend Patroclus who demands a burial by him to be able to find peace. From this we get an understanding of how important it was for the ancient Greeks that their dead were given a proper burial for the soul to enter Hades and be able to find peace. If the deceased body was not buried, the soul became restless that harassed and had the power to harm the living. Infants belong to the group of individuals that do not appear to have had any consistent way of how to deal with them after they died. Some of them did not receive anything even close to a burial that a deceased adult would have received. Why infants were handled differently in certain contexts and locations is a mystery and begs the question of whether they were not considered to be people when they died and what was required to be considered worthy of a funeral when being dead. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether infants ended up in Hades or not, with the ancient Greeks' view of death and dead bodies as a theoretical starting point. To fulfill the purpose, the following questions were asked; how were dead infants handled? Were they considered to be 'real' individuals? How do the dead infants relate to the notions of becoming restless dead? To be able to answer these questions, I researched material from three different categories of evidence. The discussion has been divided into archaeological, iconographical, and literary sources. There are many different answers to the questions of this thesis as the different sorts of source material indicate diverse answers and attitudes to infants. It all probably depends on the different geographical places, economy, and status in society. These different answers also generate different attitudes to infants and whether they in fact were a real person. But through this thesis I have displayed factors that can support my theory about infants in Hades and that they – in worst case scenario – could end up like restless dead. Mass grave Agora Athens child burials infanticide Hekate Demeter infant-graves infant death Hades Kylindra Messene Eretria Euboia restless dead demons Greek vase-paintings gravestelai Ampharete aoroi amphidromia massgrav aten athen agora infanticid spädbarnsgrav rastlösa döda demoner demoner grekland grekiska demoner grekiska vaser barngravar Antikvetenskap

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To bury a child : A spatial analysis of child burials at Giza and Saqqara / Att begrava ett barn : En rumslig analys av barngravar i Giza och Saqqara

Barnskrik i Hades? : Attityder till döda spädbarn i antika Grekland. / Screaming babies in Hades? : Attitudes to dead infants in ancient Greece.