In Remembrance of Me: Feasting with the Dead in the Ancient Middle East: 37 (Oriental Institute Museum Publications) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1614910170 ISBN 13: 9781614910176

Publisher: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2015

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

David Schloen is a faculty member in the Oriental Institute and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations of the University of Chicago, where he is also an associated faculty member of the Divinity School. He specializes in the archaeology and history of the ancient Levant (Syria and Palestine) from ca. 3000 to 300 BCE.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1614910170
• ISBN 13: 9781614910176
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176
• Editor: Schloen J. David, Rimmer Herrmann Virginia