Commensality and Ceremonial Meals in the Neo-Assyrian Period

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Ermidoro, Stefania
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Italian
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Abstract
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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https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/134500
DOI
10.14277/978-88-6969-058-7
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9788869690587, 9788875434014
Publisher
Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
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edizionicafoscari.unive.it
Publication date and place
2015
Series
Antichistica, 10
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