In Remembrance of Me: Feasting with the Dead in the Ancient Middle East (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781614910176)

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.

Author: Virginia Rimmer Herrmann
ISBN-10: 1614910170
ISBN-13: 9781614910176
Publisher: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2014
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.55lbs
Size: 11.70h x 9.00w x 0.90d