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Capitolo | Commensality and Ceremonial Meals in the Neo-Assyrian Period

Commensality and Ceremonial Meals in the Neo-Assyrian Period

Abstract

Banqueting is a multilevel, expressive, meaningful communications medium. It is never just a matter of ingesting foodstuffs that have been obtained from the surrounding environment: on the contrary, it is a very complicated social fact. It is an experience which goes beyond the nutritive consumption, and its efficacy is due to the fact that it constitutes a social and a mnemonic tool at the same time – since while the body incorporates the food, at the same time the mind creates memories which link the event to the message it conveys.


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