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.
Abstract
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.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2009
- Region
- Middle East
- Sub Region
- Middle East
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Sarah Berry; 2008
- Field Date
- 1987, 1991
- Coverage Date
- circa 4000 BP uncalibrated
- Coverage Place
- Tell Brak, Syria
- Notes
- Juliet Clutton-Brock
- For bibliographical references see document 13: Oates
- LCCN
- 00303945
- LCSH
- Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian/Excavations (Archaeology) Iraq/Mitanni (Ancient kingdom)/Dayr al-Zawr (Syria) Antiquities