Approaching Rituals in Ancient Cultures. Questioni di rito: rituali come fonte di conoscenza delle religione e delle concezioni del mondo nelle culture antiche. Proceedings of the conference, November 28-30, 2011, Roma

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SOMMARIO PREFACE INTRODUCTION Claus Ambos · Lorenzo Verderame MESOPOTAMISCHE BAURITUALE AUS DEM 1. JAHRTAUSEND V. CHR. NACHTRÄGE UND VERBESSERUNGEN Claus Ambos RITES OF PASSAGE IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA: CHANGING STATUS BY MOVING THROUGH SPACE: BIT RIMKI AND THE RITUAL OF THE SUBSTITUTE KING Claus Ambos LA DINAMICA DEL RITUALE DI HATHOR NEL TEMPIO DELLA DEA A FILE Emanuele M. Ciampini THE RECEPTION OF ROYAL AND DIVINE RITUALS BY INDIVIDUALS IN EGYPT OF THE FIRST MILLENNIUM Federico Contardi THE RIVER, THE OVEN, THE GARDEN: THE FEMALE BODY AND FERTILITY IN A LATE BABYLONIAN RITUAL TEXT M. Erica Couto-Ferreira FIGURINES & RITUALS DISCUSSING EMBODIMENT THEORIES AND GENDER STUDIES Agnès Garcia-Ventura · Mireia López-Bertran THE BEGGAR ON THE THRESHOLD. SPACES, RITUAL CROSSINGS AND SOCIAL IDENTITY IN THE HOMERIC EPIC Pietro Giammellaro THE END OF RITES OF PASSAGE AND A START WITH RITUAL SYNTAX IN ANCIENT EGYPT Harold M. Hays RITUAL IN EMAR Patrick Maxime Michel LOST IN DESCRIPTION: THE MISSING RITUALS OF THE QUEEN AT THE COURT OF ANCIENT ISRAEL Nicola Modena WHEN RITUAL MEETS ART. RITUALS IN THE VISUAL ARTS VERSUS THE VISUAL ARTS IN RITUALS: THE CASE OF ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA Davide Nadali ON THE USE OF A GRAMMAR OF RITUALS. REFLECTIONS FROM AN EGYPTOLOGIST’S POINT OF VIEW Andreas H. Pries NOISE, LIGHT AND SMOKE: THE SENSORY DIMENSION IN AKKADIAN RITUALS. A GENERAL OVERVIEW Anne-Caroline Rendu Loisel THE RITUALIZATION OF WAR: THE PHASES OF BELLUM AND THEIR SACRAL IMPLICATIONS Marta Rivaroli HITTITE BUILDING RITUALS.I NTERACTION BETWEEN THEIR IDEOLOGICAL FUNCTION AND FIND SPOTS Giulia Torri · Susanne Görke MEANS OF SUBSTITUTION. THE USE OF FIGURINES, ANIMALS, AND HUMAN BEINGS AS SUBSTITUTESIN ASSYRIAN RITUALS Lorenzo Verderame