A Child Burial from Kerch: Mortuary Practices and Approaches to Child Mortality in the North Pontic Region between the 4th Century BCE and the 1st/2nd Century CE

This article discusses a poorly studied child elite burial discovered in 1953 at the necropolis of Panticapaeum, situated near the modern city of Kerch, Crimea. A reassessment of previous research is urgently needed since it did not offer an analysis of Bosporan society from the perspective of child...

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Published in:	Arts
Main Authors:	Joanna Porucznik, Evgenia Velychko
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2024-04-01
Subjects:	child burial funerary ritual Glinishche Panticapaeum necropolis Crimea
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/13/2/71

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