Animals, ancestors, and ritual in Early Bronze Age Syria : an elite mortuary complex from Umm el-Marra /

Animals, ancestors, and ritual in Early Bronze Age Syria : an elite mortuary complex from Umm el-Marra /

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Imprint:[Los Angeles] : UCLA, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, [2024]
Description:xx, 696 pages : color illustrations, color maps, plans (some color) ; 29 cm
Language:English
Series:Monumenta archaeologica ; 50
Monumenta archaeologica (Los Angeles, Calif.) ; v. 50.
Subject:
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Syria -- Umm al Marā, Tall.
Tombs -- Syria -- Umm al Marā, Tall.
Bronze age -- Syria -- Umm al Marā, Tall.
Animal remains (Archaeology) -- Syria -- Umm al Marā, Tall.
Animal remains (Archaeology)
Antiquities
Bronze age
Excavations (Archaeology)
Tombs
Umm al Marā, Tall (Syria) -- Antiquities.
Syria -- Tall Umm al Marā
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13492315
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Other authors / contributors:Schwartz, Glenn M., editor.
ISBN:9781950446421
1950446425
9781950446438
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"This is a final report of the excavation of Tell Umm el-Marra in northern Syria, conducted in 1994-2010. It is likely the site of ancient Tuba, capital of a small kingdom in the Early and Middle Bronze periods, in the Jabbul plain between Aleppo and northern Mesopotamia. Its study advances our understanding of early Syrian complex society beyond the big cities of Antiquity. Of particular importance in the Early Bronze excavations from Umm el-Marra are the results from the site acropolis. The architecture, location, and contents of the tombs, including objects of gold, silver, and lapis lazuli, indicated that this necropolis contained the remains of high-ranking persons. The tomb area was in use for some three centuries or more, and included separate installations where equids were interred (kungas, donkey x onager hybrids), sometimes along with human infants. The kungas were expensive and prestigious animals associated with royalty and divinity and thus are apt inclusions in an elite necropolis. Their burial in separate tombs reveals their particular importance, and this site provides the first archaeological attestation of the kunga equids, unique in the archaeology of third-millennium Syria and Mesopotamia"--
Other form:Online version: Animals, ancestors, and ritual in early Bronze age Syria Los Angeles : The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2023 9781950446438

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