essay
Ritual burials of a dog and six domestic donkeys
Excavations at Tell Brak • 2 • Published In 2001 • Pages: 327-338
By: Clutton-Brock, Juliet.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Clutton-Brock describes the animal burials and their skeletons found in the large public building in Area FS, level 5; they consist of one dog and six equids that had been sacrifices. The dog would have been similar to todays Saluki or Persian greyhound. One of the equids may have been a onager x donkey hybrid (kunga), with the rest of the equids identified as donkeys. The donkeys had been housed in stalls, were used as pack animals, and were ridden or harnessed to vehicles.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Domesticated animals
- Prayers and sacrifices
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Akkadian
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2008
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1987, 1991
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- circa 4000 BP uncalibrated
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tell Brak, Syria
- NotesAdditional notes
- Juliet Clutton-Brock
- For bibliographical references see document 13: Oates
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 00303945
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian/Excavations (Archaeology) Iraq/Mitanni (Ancient kingdom)/Dayr al-Zawr (Syria) Antiquities