Eating and Drinking in the Ancient Near East
edited by Stefano de Martino, Elena Devecchi and Maurizio Viano
Hardback (Published)
(June 2024)
ISBN: 9783963272721
6.65 x 9.41 inches
Price: $163.00
In stock
This volume comprises many of the papers presented at the 67th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale in July 2021 in Turin. Due to pandemic restrictions the participants of the conference could not meet in person. The encompassing topic “Eating and Drinking in the Ancient Near East” is broad and declinable under different perspectives.
This volume comprises many of the papers presented at the 67th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale in July 2021 in Turin. Due to pandemic restrictions the participants of the conference could not meet in person. The encompassing topic “Eating and Drinking in the Ancient Near East” is broad and declinable under different perspectives. Key lectures (1) have been delivered by Cecile Michel on “Gender Aspects in Food and Drink Preparation” and by Theo van den Hout on “Hittite Foodways: The King as the Provider of his People”. Subsequent lectures grouped around the following sections: (2) Food Production, (3) Resource Management, (4) Rituality, Banquet and Commensality, (5) Medicine and Literature, (6) Philological and Archaeological Researches, (7) Varia. The lections feature both philological as well as archaeological topics, presenting new insights into well-known texts as well as hitherto unpublished material. Among others Paola Paoletti examines “Butter and Cheese Production in the Third Millennium BCE Babylonia”, Juliette Mas “Funerary Drinking Vessels in Early and Middle Bronze Age Upper Mesopotamian Burials”, while Ludovico Portuese pursues “The Assyrian Royal Banquet”, and Jan Tavernier “The Use of Eggs in Mesopotamian Medicine and beyond”, to list just a few of the 35 articles.
Preface 1. Opening Lectures Cecile Michel: 'There is no one to set my table': Gender Aspects in Food and Drink Preparation Theo van den Hout: Hittite Foodways: The King as the Provider of his People 2. Food Production Lorenzo Castellano: Viticulture in 1st Millennium BCE Anatolia: New Archaeobotanical Evidence from Southern Cappadocia and a Regional Overview Giacomo Casucci: Cooking Practices in a Central Anatolian Site between the 2nd and the 1st millennium BC: Fires and Pots at Usakli Hoyuk Francesca Giusto: Dairy Production in SW Iran from the Middle Elamite to the Neo-Elamite Period Paola Paoletti: "Ferment to Be": Butter and Cheese production in the third millennium BCE Babylonia Eleonora Quirico: Food and Craft Production at Tulul al-Baqarat, Mound 7: A Typological and Functional Analysis of Fire and Work Installations from Building A 3. Resource Management Philippe Abrahami / Brigitte Lion: Boire et manger d'apres la documentation palatiale de Nuzi (14eme s. av. J.-C.): Premiere partie: les denrees alimentaires Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum / Aron Dornauer: Feeding mat Aur: Barley supplies as a means of governance in the Western Middle Assyrian State Amalia Catagnoti / Elisabetta Cianfanelli / Fiammetta Gori / Marco Bonechi: The Value of Food: Historical, Prosopographical and Quantitative Aspects of the Final Letters and Related Texts from Ebla Palace G (3rd Millennium BC) John Dayton: On the Logistical Probabilities of Manituu's 'Magan' Campaign Massimo Maiocchi: Accounting for Alimentary Items in Third Millennium Southern Mesopotamia: Some Notes on the Role of Waxed Boards in the Historical Development of Early Mesopotamian Bookkeeping Yasuyuki Mitsuma: Health and Social Crises in 108/107 BC as Recorded in the Late Babylonian Astronomical Diaries Alessandra Caselli / Andrea Polcaro / Juan Ramon Muniz: Economy and Food Production at the Beginning of Uurbanization: The Case Study of Jebel al-Mutawwaq Luciana Urbano: Yataraya and the Wine: Her Role in the Palace Administration of Mari (1775-1762 BC) 4. Rituality, Banquet and Commensality Adonice-A. Baaklini / Margaux Spruyt: The Vessels of the Assyrian Royal Banquet: An Archaeological and Iconographic Approach Trudy Kawami: What Fine Ceramics Can Tell Us About Social Drinking in Iron Age Iran Juliette Mas: Toasting with the Dead: Funerary Drinking Vessels in Early and Middle Bronze Age Upper Mesopotamian Burials Davide Nadali: Representing Banquets in Ancient Mesopotamia: A Public Affair? Natia Phiphia / Omari Dzadzamia: Food and Drinks in Ancient Diaeuhi and Colchis Paola Poli: The Iconography of the "Banquet Scene" among the Figurative Documentation from the Second and Third Millennium Levels at Tell Ashara-Terqa (Syria) Ludovico Portuese: The Assyrian Royal Banquet: A Sociological and Anthropological Approach JoAnn Scurlock: Marzeah in Mesopotamia Zozan Tarhan: From Intention to Accomplishment: Secular and Cultic Feasts Provided by the Neo-Assyrian King 5. Medine and Literature Christie Carr: Desire and Hunger
Women and Food: The earliest example of a universal conceptual metaphor in the Sumerian "Love Songs"? Paola Dardano: "Eat and drink, but do not look at my, the king's, eyes!": On a Metaphorical Expression in Old Hittite Kiril Mladenov: The Potion in the 1st Millennium Assyro-Babylonian Medicine Jan Tavernier: The Use of Eggs in Mesopotamian Medicine and beyond Klaus Wagensonner: Rites, Music, and Banquets: Some Observations on Rituals in Sumerian Divine Journeys 6. New Perspectives Romolo Loreto: An Old Babylonian Cylinder Seal from the Museo Orientale Umberto Scerrato: Notes on a Digital Microscopic High Magnification Analysis Seraina Nett / Gustav Ryberg Smidt / Carolin Johansson / Rune Rattenborg: The Cuneiform Corpus in its Geographical Setting: Preliminary Results of the Project Geomapping Landscapes of Writing Luca Peyronel / Tatiana Pedrazzi / Stefano Anastasio / Elena Devecchi / Silvana Di Paolo / Stefania Ermidoro / Valentina Oselini / Irene Rossi: ArCOA Project: The Ancient Near Eastern Collections in Italy from Study to Public Fruition Babette Schnitzlein / Sophie Cohen: News from Ashurbanipal's Library 7. Varia John P. Nielsen: Marad between the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Empires
- Edited by Stefano De Martino
- Edited by Elena Devecchi
- Edited by Maurizio Viano
Other Titles in this Series
Grenzuberschreitungen. Studien zur Kulturgeschichte des Alten Orients
Festschrift fur Hans Neumann zum 65. Geburtstag am 9. Mai 2018
Volume 5
Institutionelle Sklaverei in Tempel und Palast in Sudmesopotamien wahrend der altbabylonischen Zeit
Volume 23
Beitrage zur Kenntnis und Deutung altorientalischer Archivalien
Festschrift fur Helmut Freydank zum 80. Geburtstag
Volume 6
The Sumerian Zame Hymns from Tell Abū Ṣalābīḫ
With an Appendix on the Early Dynastic Colophons
Volume 12
Explaining Disaster
Tradition and Transformation of the 'Catastrophe of Ibbi-Sin' in Babylonian Literature
Volume 13
mu-zu an-za3-se3 kur-ur2-se3 he2-gal2
Altorientalistische Studien zu Ehren von Konrad Volk
Volume 17
Kultur – Kontakt – Kultur
Beiträge anlässlich der 66. Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale in Frankfurt/Main und Mainz, 25.–29. Juli 2022
Volume 35
‘I Passed over Difficult Mountains’
Studies on the Ancient Near East in Honor of Mario Liverani
Volume 28
Current Research in Early Mesopotamian Studies
Workshop Organized at the 65th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Paris 2019
Volume 21
Similar Books
Ḫattušaš utnē išḫameški
Hittite and Other Ancient Near Eastern Studies Presented to Piotr Taracha on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday
Punning in Odd or Elegant Constructions in Jeremiah
The Convergence of Linguistics, Rhetoric, and Textuality in the Hebrew Text of Jeremiah
Shame in the Worlds of the Hebrew Bible and Akkadian Texts
A Linguistic Study and Its Implications
Volume 33
Telling Contexts
Archaeological and Textual Studies in Honor of Elizabeth Bloch-Smith and Mark S. Smith
Die Entwicklung erdbebensicherer Bautechniken in der Frühen und Mittleren Eisenzeit in Ostanatolien
Volume 11
Kultur – Kontakt – Kultur
Beiträge anlässlich der 66. Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale in Frankfurt/Main und Mainz, 25.–29. Juli 2022
Volume 35
Sprachwissenschaftliche und kulturhistorische Reflexionen
Festschrift zu Ehren von Jörg Klinger
Volume 31
A Numismatic History of Barikot
Catalogue and Analysis of the Coin Finds from the Excavations at Bir-koṭ-ghwaṇḍai (Barikot), Swat, Pakistan (1984-2022) Pakistan (1984-2022). With a contribution by Luca M. Olivieri
Volume 69
Alexander the Great and the Campaign of Gaugamela
New Research on Topography and Chronology. IAMNI 1 (Italian Archaeological Mission to Northern Iraq)
Volume 53
Archaeology of Eastern Anatolia II: From Prehistoric Times to the End of the Iron Ages
Proceedings of the 2nd Archaeology of Eastern Anatolia Colloquium, 23-25 April 2021, Online (Arkeolojihaber Youtube Channel)
Volume 43
Assyria and the West
A Fresh Look at the Unshakeable Pillars of Late Bronze and Iron Age Chronology in the Eastern Mediterranean World
Autocratic Rule in Antiquity
Proceedings of the 14th Melammu Workshop, Krakow, 46 October 2021
Volume 12
Boğazköy Tablets in the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations (Bo 95–Bo 3993)
Anadolu Medeniyetleri Müzesinde Bulunan Boğazköy Tabletleri (Bo 95–Bo 3993)
Volume 3
Bridging the Gap: Disciplines, Times, and Spaces in Dialogue – Volume 2
Sessions 3, 7 and 8 from the Conference Broadening Horizons 6 Held at the Freie Universität Berlin, 24–28 June 2019
Ceramic Finds in Context (Roman to Early Islamic Times)
Final Publications from the Danish-German Jerash Northwest Quarter Project VII
Volume 13
From Egypt to the Levant and Beyond
African Individuals and Groupsain Cuneiform Texts from the Late Bronze Age
Volume 133
Groundbreaking Technologies in the Middle Paleolithic of the Levant
8igh Resolution and Multi-scale Functional Analysis of Ground Stone Tools
Volume 3
It All Began with Stratigraphy and Chronology
Archaeology in Central Anatolia. Festschrift Dedicated to Sachihiro Omura on his 77th Birthday
Khirbet al-Khalde
Final Publications from the Khirbet al-Khalde Archaeological Project 2023
Volume 2
