Early Christian burial traditions in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Findings from Burial Contexts of the Cemetery Basilica below St Maximin, Trier

该项目致力于对1978年至1995年间在特里尔圣马克西姆（St Maximin）重要的皇家修道院教堂下发现的发现进行跨学科分析。这些发现源于古代晚期和中世纪早期在该市重要的基督教社区的墓地大教堂的埋葬清单。这个墓室的尺寸和特征，建于4世纪，尺寸为62 x 17米，可以解释为特里尔皇家宫廷的赞助。在最近的研究中，已经确定了这些地方的建筑历史顺序，并对丰富的早期基督教铭文进行了分析。现在，从石棺中发现的物品，包括珍贵的纺织品、珠宝和骨骼遗骸，将被分析，以调查埋葬仪式、死者的社会背景和来源，以及基督教关于来世的观念及其在4世纪到7世纪之间的变化。

The project is devoted to an inter-disciplinary analysis of findings recovered between 1978 and 1995 below the church of the important imperial abbey of St Maximin, Trier. These finding stem from the late ancient and early medieval burial inventories in the cemetery basilica of the citys important Christian community. The dimensions and features of this burial hall, which was built in the fourth century and measured c. 62 x 17 m, can be explained by the patronage of the imperial court at Trier. The sequence of the places building history has already been established and the rich early Christian corpus of inscriptions analysed in recent research. Now the objects recovered from the burials in sarcophagi, including precious textiles, jewellery, and skeletal remains, will be analysed to investigate the burial rites, the social background and provenance of the dead, as well as Christian ideas concerning the afterlife and their changes between the fourth and seventh centuries.