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年在特里尔重要的圣马克西明皇家修道院教堂下方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该市重要基督教社区墓地大教堂的墓葬清单。这座建于公元4世纪、大小约为62×17米的墓室的规模和特征，可以通过特里尔朝廷的赞助来解释。建筑历史的地点顺序已经建立，并在最近的研究中分析了丰富的早期基督教铭文语料库。现在将分析从石棺埋葬中发现的物品，包括珍贵的纺织品、珠宝和骨骼遗骸，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思想及其在4至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.