The Sumerian World (Routledge Worlds)

Goody, E. N. 1982. From Craft to Industry. The Ethnography of Proto-Industrial Cloth Production. Cambridge: Cambridge University ...

Pomponio, F. 2010. New Texts Regarding the Neo-Sumerian Textiles. In C. Michel and M.-L Nosch (eds.) Textile Terminologies in th ...

—— 1996. Sex, Rhetoric and the Public Monument: The Alluring Body of Naram-Sin of Agade. In N. Kampten (ed.), Sexuality in Ancie ...

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE DEATH AND BURIAL
 Helga Vogel T he archaeological remains and the written records from the third millenniu ...

–– Helga Vogel –– documenting the consumption of rations, sacrifices or other items that were used in the context of mortuary pr ...

in Mesopotamia. Such grave goods most frequently include beads, pins, other small pieces of jewelry, shells for cosmetics, and, ...

(PG 755 ) (Woolley 1934 : 156 ). In female burials, the upper body was adorned with necklaces made from semi-precious stones and ...

burial chamber RT 1050 ). The grave of a small girl (PG 1068 ) yielded a large number of necklaces for adult women that covered ...

the second day in the ki-a-nag ̆, which is usually translated as “place of libation,” although it is possible that the term refe ...

corpses on the battlefield. It has to remain unclear whether this pile on the Stele of Vultures was meant to indicate dead enemi ...

It must be noted that the number of graves excavated at an archaeological site hardly ever corresponds to the estimated populati ...

have taken place in the grave. According to Winter ( 1999 : 246 , 249 – 250 ), the corpse may have been subject to anointment, w ...

of rituals or ceremonies. Such a strict separation of the world of the dead from the world of the living is quite characteristic ...

notions of the netherworld, that is, that a dead person had to pass through seven gates in order to reach the center of the neth ...

2002 : 162 – 163 , 182 – 195 ). During the city “queen’s” annual procession from Girsu to Lagash and NINA/Sirara, additional sac ...

Selz 2006 : 88 , fn. 11 ). Without a doubt this refers to fabrics that were used for clothing statues. This may be linked to a s ...

—— 2006 Genre, Gender, and the Sumerian Lamentation. Journal of Cuneiform Studies 58 : 39 – 47. —— 2010 Wind and Smoke: Giving u ...

Laneri, Nicola (ed.) 2007 Performing Death – Social Analyses of Funerary Traditions in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean. ...

—— 2004 b Feste in Stein – Der frühmesopotamische Kult der Bilder: Identität und Differenz. Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 6 : 1 ...

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO SUMERIAN MYTHOLOGY
 Benjamin R. Foster DEFINITION AND SOURCES P ioneering studies of Mesopotamian religion ...