Recht, L., and Tsouparopoulou, C. Fierce lions, angry mice and fat-tailed sheep: Animal encounters in the ancient Near East., 2021
The Fox in Enki and Ninhursaĝa Dumuzi and the Fly Lugalbanda and Anzu Ninurta and the Anzu's chic... more The Fox in Enki and Ninhursaĝa Dumuzi and the Fly Lugalbanda and Anzu Ninurta and the Anzu's chick Inanna, Šukaletuda, and the Raven Conclusions: magical helpers and the metamorphosis human-animal Chapter 3 Canines from inside and outside the city: of dogs, foxes and wolves in conceptual spaces in Sumero-Akkadian texts 23 Andréa Vilela Canines from the 'inside': dogs Canines from the 'in-between': stray dogs Canines from the outside: wolves and foxes Conclusion Chapter 4 A human-animal studies approach to cats and dogs in ancient Egypt: evidence from mummies, iconography and epigraphy 31 Marina Fadum & Carina Gruber Human-cat relationships in ancient Egypt: the cat as an animal mummy Human-canine relationships in ancient Egypt: the dog as companion animal Conclusion Part II Animals in ritual and cult Chapter 5 Encountered animals and embedded meaning: the ritual and roadside fauna of second millennium Anatolia 39 Neil Erskine Deleuze, Guattari, and reconstructing ancient understanding Landscape, religion, and putting meaning in place Creatures, cult, and creating meaning Folding animals in ritual Bulls, boars, birds Folding animals on the road Human-animal interactions Conclusion vi Chapter 6 The dogs of the healing goddess Gula in the archaeological and textual record of ancient Mesopotamia 55 Seraina Nett The dogs of Gula in Mesopotamian art The Isin dog cemetery The dogs of Gula in Ur III documentary sources Conclusion
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The session focuses on papers examining material from Western Asia as broadly conceived.
As this si already a large area with a wide range of different practices, we aim to use this as a starting point that may later be extended to include other regions. The time period is
open, and papers can focus on a specific period and site, or explore diachronic developments.
We encourage papers devoted to:
- Animal burials
- Animal bones in human burials
- Methodological approaches to studying commingled animal and human remains in burials
- Animal symbolism ni funerary contexts, ancient texts &art representations
Mycenaean and other Aegean pottery can be used not only for cultural synchronisation and tentative dating, but also suggests trade connections and cultural interaction from at least as early as LH/LM II and continuing through to the LH IIIC period, with the greatest concentration belonging to LH IIIA2-B. Variations in trade trajectories can be detected in the range of origins of the pottery within the Aegean, for example the Greek Mainland, Crete and the South Eastern Aegean islands.
We can also see that certain shapes were particularly popular with the Cypriots and that specific selection of shapes occurred in different social contexts. Adaptation (or imitation) of popular Aegean shapes occurred both in early local productions and in later White Painted Wheelmade Geometric Style Wares, including small-medium stirrup jars and deep and shallow bowls. The imported Aegean pottery appears in higher concentrations in the area of Hala Sultan Tekke where tombs have been found (‘Area A’). Here it may have had a special social significance and value, since larger amounts of pictorial pieces and kraters occur, both of which have a strong association with funerary assemblages in Cyprus and play a role in the creations and negotiation of identity.