Festivals in the Early Bronze Age city-states of Mesopotamia
Project Description
In the summer term of 2017, Adelheid Otto and Walther Sallaberger were doing reseach on the topic of "Feste in den frühbronzezeitlichen Stadtstaaten Mesopotamiens: Eine Synthese aufgrund keilschriftlicher und archäologischer Zeugnisse“ as senior researchers in residence at the Center for Advanced Studies (CASLMU).
Festivals and festival cultures are an ideal source with which to comprehend the identity and social order, the religion and the values of the people of the third millennium BC. In constant dialogue between archeology, the science of material evidence, and the Assyriological investigation of the written evidence, Adelheid Otto and Walther Sallaberger bring together for the first time the findings of the two fields: cuneiform sources, which constitute both literary and documentary evidence, enter into correspondence with artifacts and pictorial evidence.
Research was done in exchange with colleagues from Germany and abroad. In May 2017, a conference was held on this topic at the CAS. A joint monography of Sallberger and Otto is in preparation.
Links
- CAS LMU München:
http://www.cas.uni-muenchen.de/rir/senior_rir/ehemalige_senior_rir/otto_a_sallaberger_w/index.html
Contact
- Prof. Dr. Adelheid Otto: aotto@lmu.de
- Prof. Dr. Walther Sallaberger: wasa@assyr.fak12.uni-muenchen.de