As above so down below: location and memory within the Neo-Assyrian mortuary cult

Volume: 52, Issue: 1, Pages: 90 - 102
Published: Jan 1, 2020
Abstract
Understanding mortuary ritual provides new perspectives for interpreting spatial collective memory and the relationship between elite and non-elite practices. Aššur serves as a case study to investigate the mortuary cult of the Neo-Assyrian period via ‘necrogeography’ in Mesopotamia. This study compares the textual sources to architectural and material features of elite and non-elite spaces in which burials and tombs were located. Neo-Assyrian...
Paper Details
Title
As above so down below: location and memory within the Neo-Assyrian mortuary cult
Published Date
Jan 1, 2020
Volume
52
Issue
1
Pages
90 - 102
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