This paper discusses the Ancient Near Eastern "system" of food and drink offerings to the dead as known from Late Bronze and Iron Age sources. The conceptual background of these mortuary and commemorative rites, their ties to a specific belief about life after death and the rules imposed by the latter to ancestor cults are described. Then, three different forms in which food and drink offerings to the dead took place are analysed: the presentation of food and drink offerings to an image of a dead ancestor, the partaking in cultic meals inside a funrary crypt, and the organization of "dining parties" in honor of a dead member of a male sodality

Outlines of the practice and ideology of the funerary banquet in the ancient Near East

Zu Tisch im Jenseits: Totenmahl und Ahnenkult in der Levante (1600–700 vu Z.)

Gilibert, Alessandra
2009-01-01

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Outlines of the practice and ideology of the funerary banquet in the ancient Near East
2009
Koscher & Co.: Über Essen und Religion
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