The workshop aims at presenting current research on textual, iconographical, and archaeological evidence for the use of textiles in ritual and cult in the Ancient Near East. The main purpose is to address questions related to the use of raw materials, garments of ritual performers and cult images, textile tools in ritual and cultic practices as well as textile metaphors and analogical formulas in rituals.
In dieser Festschrift für Giovanni Battista-Lanfranchi wird seinem breit gefächerten Interesse am Alten Orient Rechnung getragen, was sich in den verschiedenen Beiträgen seiner Schüler und Kollegen widerspiegelt. Lanfranchi ist ein interdisziplinärer Wissenschaftler par excellence und er hat bedeutende Arbeiten in verschiedenen Disziplinen durchgeführt. Mit einen sowohl historischen als auch philologischen Ansatz griff er unterschiedliche historische Themen auf und behandelte diese kompetent mit detaillierten Quellenwissen. Im Einklang mit Lanfranchis eigenenumfangreichen Arbeiten ietet dieser Band 44 Artikel – in Englisch, Deutsch und Italienisch –, die sich mit Themen aus Ost und West und von der 3. Jahrtausend zum 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr. befassen.
This study completes a significant chapter in the author’s research on Assyrian material culture by collecting and analyzing the lexicon of containers documented in Neo-Assyrian Empire texts (9th–7th centuries BC). Employing an interdisciplinary approach, it combines lexical analysis with comparisons of textual data and iconographical and archaeological evidence of Assyrian utensils from the first millennium BC. The work serves as an updated resource for understanding a vital sector of imperial Assyria's vocabulary and material culture. It is structured into six sections: a lexical repertoire, an analytical part, a glossary, appendices, tables, and a catalogue of figures. The book includes images of Neo-Assyrian containers derived from both iconographical and archaeological evidence. Through a thorough evaluation of textual data and comparisons with representations in Assyrian art, as well as contemporary metal and ceramic artifacts, the author proposes identifications of the containers mentioned in the texts. Additionally, the study examines metrological notations of vessel volumes and their potential for interdisciplinary identification of containers in written sources. It also illuminates various aspects of Assyrian life, including food storage, consumption, ritual dynamics, vessel symbolism, legal practices, and bureaucratic conventions used by scribes. (Text in Italian)