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Title
  • In remembrance of me : feasting with the dead in the ancient Middle East / edited by Virginia Rimmer Herrmann and J. David Schloen ; with new photography by Anna R. Ressman.
Publication
  • Chicago, Illinois : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, [2014]
  • ©2014

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  • Herrmann, Virginia Rimmer
  • Schloen, J. David, 1962-
  • University of Chicago. Oriental Institute. Museum
Description
175 pages : illustrations,; 30 cm
Summary
This Oriental Institute Museum exhibit catalog looks at how the living commemorated and cared for deceased ancestors in the ancient Middle East. The focus of the exhibit is the memorial monument (stele) of an official named Katumuwa (ca. 735 BC), discovered in 2008 by University of Chicago archaeologists at the site of Zincirli, Turkey. Part I of the catalog presents the most comprehensive collection of scholarship yet published on the interpretation of the Katumuwa Stele, an illuminating new document of ancestor cult and beliefs about the soul. In Part II, leading scholars describe the relationship between the living and the dead in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia, and the Levant (Syria-Palestine), providing a valuable introduction to the family and mortuary religion of the ancient Middle East. The fifty-seven objects cataloged highlight the role of food and drink offerings and stone effigies in maintaining a place for the dead in family life.
Series Statement
  • Oriental Institute Museum publications ; 37
Uniform Title
Oriental Institute Museum publications no. 37.
Subject
  • Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient > Middle East > Exhibitions
  • Middle East > Antiquities > Exhibitions
Note
  • Published in conjunction with an exhibition held April 8, 2014 - January 4, 2015.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-175).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: The Katumuwa Stele and the Commemoration of the Dead in the Ancient Middle East. Virginia R. Herrmann -- I. Katumuwa Stele From Zincirli -- 2. City of Katumuwa: The Iron Age Kingdom of Sam'al and the Excavation of Zincirli. J. David Schloen -- 3. Katumuwa's Banquet Scene. Dominik Bonatz -- 4. Katumuwa Inscription. Dennis Pardee -- 5. Katumuwa Stele in Archaeological Context. Virginia R. Herrmann -- 6. Katumuwa Stele in the Context of Royal Mortuary Cult at Sam'al. Herbert Niehr -- II. Feasts For The Dead In The Ancient Middle East -- 7. Religious, Communal, and Political Feasting in the Ancient Middle East. Marian H. Feldman -- 8. Feasts for the Dead and Ancestor Veneration in Levantine Traditions. Theodore J. Lewis -- 9. Death Binds: On Some Rites Surrounding Death in Ancient Anatolia. Theo van den Hout -- 10. Dead that Are Slow to Depart: Evidence for Ancestor Rituals in Mesopotamia. Karel van der Toorn -- 11. Feasts for the Dead and Ancestor Veneration in Egyptian Tradition. Miriam Muller -- III. Catalog -- Katumuwa Stele (Nos. 1-11) -- Katumuwa Stele Cast (No. 1) -- Video: "Remembering Katumuwa" (No. 2) -- Eternal Feast: Reading the Katumuwa Stele's Image (Nos. 3-11) -- Soul in the Stone: Effigies of the Dead (Nos. 12-20) -- Banquet in Life and Death (Nos. 21-26) -- Dishes for the Dead (Nos. 27-47) -- Fast Food: Magical Methods of Provisioning the Dead (Nos. 48-50) -- Epilogue: Contemporary Commemorations (Nos. 51-57).
ISBN
  • 9781614910176
  • 1614910170
OCLC
876666479
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