Commensality and Ceremonial Meals in the Neo-Assyrian Period
| 1. Verfasser: |
Ermidoro, Stefania
, [VerfasserIn]
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Venezia :
Edizioni Ca' Foscari,
2015.
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| Umfang/Format: |
1 online resource. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Antichistica
8 |
| Parallelausgabe: |
Commensality and Ceremonial Meals in the Neo-Assyrian Period (Print version) |
| Online Zugang: |
open access |
| Beschreibung: |
Like a language, food is a witness to the tradition and to the identity of a human group, reflecting self-representation and social interaction. Assyrians developed a particular consciousness of commensality as a vehicle for cultural messages. This book investigates institutional banquets and ritualized meals in the Neo-Assyrian period. Through a philological analysis on commensality, integrated with historical and iconographic data, it offers a new perspective on the Mesopotamian society of the first millennium BCE. |
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| ISBN: |
978-88-6969-058-7 |
