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In Remembrance of Me: Feasting with the Dead in the Ancient Middle East
Virg Rimmer Herrmann
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Paperback. Editor(s): Schloen, J. David; Rimmer Herrmann, Virginia. Num Pages: 176 pages, 140 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 293 x 14. Weight in Grams: 730.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
730g
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781614910176
SKU
V9781614910176
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