Item
Commensality and Ceremonial Meals in the Neo-Assyrian Period
- Title
- Commensality and Ceremonial Meals in the Neo-Assyrian Period
- Description
- 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.
- Creator
- Ermidoro, Stefania
- Publisher
- Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
- Date
- 2015
- Identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.14277/978-88-6969-058-7
- Type
- Text
- Format
- Language
- it
- Source
- https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/134500
- Relation
- Antichistica 10
- Rights
- CC BY 4.0
- Educational Level
- Higher education | research
- Interactivity Type
- Expositive
- Item sets
- Ca' Foscari University of Venice