This Oriental Institute Museum exhibit catalog looks at how the
living commemorated and cared for deceased ancestors in the ancient
Middle East. The focus of the exhibit is the memorial monument
(stele) of an official named Katumuwa (ca. 735 BC), discovered in
2008 by University of Chicago archaeologists at the site of
Zincirli, Turkey. Part I of the catalog presents the most
comprehensive collection of scholarship yet published on the
interpretation of the Katumuwa Stele, an illuminating new document
of ancestor cult and beliefs about the soul. In Part II, leading
scholars describe the relationship between the living and the dead
in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia, and the Levant (Syria-Palestine),
providing a valuable introduction to the family and mortuary
religion of the ancient Middle East. The fifty-seven objects
cataloged highlight the role of food and drink offerings and stone
effigies in maintaining a place for the dead in family life.
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