ABSTRACT

Understanding mortuary ritual provides new perspectives for interpreting spatial collective memory and the relationship between elite and non-elite practices. Aššur serves as a case study to investigate the mortuary cult of the Neo-Assyrian period via ‘necrogeography’ in Mesopotamia. This study compares the textual sources to architectural and material features of elite and non-elite spaces in which burials and tombs were located. Neo-Assyrian domestic burials and their associated cults are then compared to the royal tombs and rituals surrounding the death of rulers. Concepts of space and memory from the theoretical works of Pierre Nora and Mircea Eliade are applied to Mesopotamian ideas of death and the afterlife to understand the necrogeographies of Assyrian burials in relation to the living. This conceptualizes location and memory in relation to sacred and profane space, concluding that burials were intentionally placed to establish a link to the underworld, benefitting both the deceased and the living.

摘要

了解太平间的仪式为解释空间集体记忆以及精英与非精英实践之间的关系提供了新的视角。阿舒尔（Aššur）作为案例研究，通过美索不达米亚的“死灵地理学”调查了新亚述时代的mort葬崇拜。这项研究将文本来源与埋葬墓葬的精英和非精英空间的建筑和材料特征进行了比较。然后将新亚述人的家葬及其相关的邪教与统治者之死的皇家陵墓和仪式进行比较。皮埃尔·诺拉（Pierre Nora）和米尔恰·埃里亚德（Mircea Eliade）的理论著作中的空间和记忆概念被应用到美索不达米亚的死亡和来世观念中，以了解与生活有关的亚述丧葬墓地。