Contents
Editorial / Jas Elsner and Wu Hung
Alain Thote / Chinese coffins from the first millennium B.C. and early images of the afterworld
Björn C. Ewald / Paradigms of personhood and regimes of representation: Some notes on the transformation of Roman sarcophagi
Zheng Yan / Western Han sarcophagi and the transformation of Chinese funerary art
Janet Huskinson / Reading identity on Roman strigilated sarcophagi
Richard Neer / “A tomb both great and blameless”: Marriage and murder on a sarcophagus from the Hellespont
Lillian Lan-ying Tseng / Funerary spatiality: Wang Hui’s sarcophagus in Han China
Edmund Thomas / “Nero’s Tomb” and the crisis of the third century: Roman sarcophagi as public and private monuments
Eugene Wang / Jouissance of death? Han sarcophagi from Sichuan and the art of physiological alchemy
Paul Zanker / Reading images without texts on Roman sarcophagi
Jas Elsner / Decorative imperatives between concealment and display: The form of sarcophagi
Wu Hung / Han sarcophagi: Surface, depth, context
Verity Platt / Framing the dead on Roman sarcophagi
Finbarr Barry Flood / Presentation, (re)animation, and the enchantments of technology
T. J. Clark / Death panels
Andrew K. Scherer / The Classic Maya sarcophagus: Veneration and renewal at Palenque and Tonina
Roberta Bonetti / Coffins for wear and consumption: Abebuu adekai as memory makers among the Ga of Ghana
Alexandre Tokovinine and Cameron L. McNeil / Introduction: Colored things, chromatic stories: Searching for the pigments of the past
Alexandre Tokovinine / Writing color: Words and images of colors in Classic Maya inscriptions
Cameron L. McNeil / Recovering the color of ancient Maya floral offerings at Copan, Honduras
Timothy W. Pugh and Leslie G. Cecil / The contact period of central Petén, Guatemala in color
Leonardo López Luján and Giacomo Chiari / Color in monumental Mexica sculpture
Douglas K. Charles / Colorful practices in Hopewellian earthwork construction
Warren R. DeBoer / Drinking and eating colors in the Peruvian Amazon