Profiling Death Neo Elamite Mortuary Practices Afterlife Beliefs And Entanglements With Ancestors

Author : Yasmina Wicks
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004391770
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Profiling Death. Neo-Elamite Mortuary Practices, Afterlife Beliefs, and Entanglements with Ancestors written by Yasmina Wicks and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yasmina Wicks’s investigation of the mortuary practices and beliefs of southwest Iran’s inhabitants during the last chapter of Elamite history (ca. 1000-520 BCE) enhances our understanding of an important, but often overlooked, entity of the ancient Near East.

Author : Tushar
Publisher : PRASHARAN SVM
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Burial Practices in Ancient India written by Tushar and published by PRASHARAN SVM. This book was released on 2023-09-16 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delve into the intricate landscape of ancient Indian burial practices, spanning Mesolithic to Neolithic epochs. Unveil cultural and societal dimensions through mortuary practices in five comprehensive chapters. Gain insight regarding the basics of burial archaeology. Discover how burial rites evolved from indigenous societies to agrarian communities. Explore the transformative journey through time, culture, and human rituals. This booklet sheds light on deep-seated dynamics that shaped ancient lives, underscoring burial practices as pivotal cultural expressions. This booklet peculiarly offers a comprehensive perspective on the evolution of burial customs from Mesolithic to Neolithic times in Ancient India, weaving together history, culture, and human beliefs.

Author : Javier Álvarez-Mon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000034852
Total Pages : 711 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Elam CA. 4200–525 BC written by Javier Álvarez-Mon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Elam ca. 4200-525 BC offers a view of, and a critical reflection on, the art history of one of the world’s first and least-known civilizations, illuminating a significant chapter of our human past. Not unlike a gallery of historical paintings, this comprehensive treatment of the rich heritage of ancient Iran showcases a visual trail of the evolution of human society, with all its leaps and turns, from its origins in the earliest villages of southwest Iran at around 4200 BC to the rise of the Achaemenid Persian empire in ca. 525 BC. Richly illustrated in full colour with 1450 photographs, 190 line drawings, and digital reconstructions of hundreds of artefacts—some of which have never before been published—The Art of Elam goes beyond formal and thematic boundaries to emphasize the religious, political, and social contexts in which art was created and functioned. Such a magisterial study of Elamite art has never been written making The Art of Elam ca. 4200-525 BC a ground-breaking publication essential to all students of ancient art and to our current understanding of the civilizations of the ancient Near East.

Author : Christopher Metcalf
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 164602009X
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sumerian Literary Texts in the Schøyen Collection written by Christopher Metcalf and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in a series of volumes publishing the Sumerian literary texts in the Schøyen Collection, this book makes available, for the first time, editions of seventeen cuneiform tablets, dating to ca. 2000 BCE and containing works of Sumerian religious poetry. Edited, translated, and annotated by Christopher Metcalf, these poems shed light on the interaction between cult, scholarship, and scribal culture in Mesopotamia in the early second millennium BCE. The present volume contains fourteen songs composed in praise of the various gods of the Mesopotamian pantheon; it is believed that these songs were typically performed in temple cults. Among them are a song in praise of Sud, goddess of the ancient Mesopotamian city Shuruppak; a song describing the statue of the protective goddess Lamma-saga in the “Sacred City” temple complex at Girsu; and a previously unknown hymn dedicated to the creator god Enki. Each text is provided in transliteration and translation and accompanied by hand-copies and images of the tablets themselves. Expertly contextualizing each song in Babylonian religious and literary history, this thoroughly competent editio princeps will prove a valuable tool for scholars interested in the literary and religious traditions of ancient Mesopotamia.

Author : Javier Álvarez-Mon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131732983X
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elamite World written by Javier Álvarez-Mon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amongst the civilizations to participate in the dynamic processes of contact and interchange that gave rise to complex societies in the ancient Near East, Elam has remained one of the most obscure, at times languishing in the background of scholarly inquiry. In recent years, however, an increasing body of academic publications have acknowledged its relevance and suggested that its legacy was more considerable and long-lasting than previously estimated. The Elamite World assembles a group of 40 international scholars to contribute their expertise to the production of a solid, lavishly illustrated, English language treatment of Elamite civilization. It covers topics such as its physical setting, historical development, languages and people, material culture, art, science, religion and society, as well as the legacy of Elam in the Persian empire and its presence in the modern world. This comprehensive and ambitious survey seeks for Elam, hardly a household name, a noteworthy place in our shared cultural heritage. It will be both a valuable introductory text for a general audience and a definitive reference source for students and academics.

Author : Marcel Sigrist
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1646021436
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tablets from the Iri-saĝrig Archive written by Marcel Sigrist and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While each of the previously known archives from the Third Dynasty of Ur has provided distinct views of Sumerian society, those from Iri-Saĝrig present an extraordinary range of new sources, depicting a cosmopolitan Sumerian/Akkadian city unlike any other from this period. In this publication, Marcel Sigrist and Tohru Ozaki present more than two thousand newly identified tablets, mostly from Iri-Saĝrig. This unique and extensive corpus elucidates the importance that Iri-Saĝrig represented politically, militarily, and culturally in Sumer. Although these tablets were not able to be cleaned, baked, or photographed, the authors’ transliterations are based on the original tablets, often after repeated collations. Moreover, access to so many well-preserved tablets made it possible to improve upon the readings and interpretations offered in previous publications. Volume 1 contains a catalog and classification of the texts by provenance, a list of month names and year formulas, another of inscriptions, a chronological listing of the texts, and extensive indexes of personal names, deities, toponyms, and selected words and phrases. Volume 2 presents the texts in transliteration with substantial commentary. This two-volume publication preserves and makes available to the scholarly community a significant segment of Iraq’s cultural legacy that otherwise might have been ignored or even lost. It will augment and enhance our understanding of the unique civilization of Mesopotamia in the late third millennium BCE.

Author : Javier Álvarez-Mon
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575066122
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elam and Persia written by Javier Álvarez-Mon and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2011-06-23 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late 7th and 6th centuries B.C. were a period of tremendous upheaval and change in ancient western Asia, marked by the destruction of the Assyrian Empire, the rise and collapse of the Neo-Babylonian state, and the stunning ascent of what was to become the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the largest polity the world had yet seen. Of the major cultural entities involved in these far-reaching events, Elam has long remained the least understood. The essays contained in this book are part of a continuing reassessment of the nature and significance of Elam in the early 1st millennium B.C., with a focus on the relationship between “Elamite” culture of the Neo-Elamite period and the emerging “Persian” culture in southwestern Iran in the 7th and 6th centuries B.C. The conception of this volume goes back to the 2003 meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research that took place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where two sessions were dedicated to the rich cultural heritage of ancient Iran. It was also the first time that Iranian archaeology was represented at ASOR since the Iranian Revolution. This volume contains 14 contributions by leading scholars in the discipline, organized into 3 sections: archaeology, texts, and images (art history). The volume is richly illustrated with more than 200 drawings and photographs.

Author : Maria Brosius
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in Ancient Persia, 559-331 BC written by Maria Brosius and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Greek writers on Persian history give us a glimpse of the influential role played by some individual women at these courts, but these are sporadic and hardly reliable accounts of a few colourful femme fatales in the royal family, designed to show up the scandalous machinations of barbarian women gaining political control and causing the decline and effeminacy of the Persian kings. This book is the first to demonstrate the true importance of not only royal but non-royal women in Persia, with the benefit of contemporary Persian and Babylonian sources.

Author : Michael Kozuh
Publisher : Oriental Inst Publications Sales
ISBN 13 : 9781614910015
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extraction & Control written by Michael Kozuh and published by Oriental Inst Publications Sales. This book was released on 2014 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew Wolfgang Stolper began working for the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary in 1978 and became full professor in the Oriental Institute 1987, focusing on Neo-Babylonian and Middle Elamite. Matt has worked tirelessly to raise the necessary funding, to assemble a team of scholars, to promote the importance of the Persepolis Fortification Archive to academic and popular audiences, and most significantly, to concisely, passionately, and convincingly place the Persepolis Archives in their Achaemenid, ancient Near Eastern, and modern geo-political contexts. The twenty-six papers from Stolper's colleagues, friends, and students show the breadth of his interests.

Author : Sven Cederroth
Publisher : Ubsaliensis S. Academiae
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Meaning of Death written by Sven Cederroth and published by Ubsaliensis S. Academiae. This book was released on 1988 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: