essay

Fish offerings from Tell Brak?: comments on an articulated specimen found in the 1990 season

Excavations at Tell Brak • 2 • Published In 2001 • Pages: 339-345

By: Roselló Izquierdo, Eufrasia, Morales, Arturo.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document

This article describes a find of the yellow-fin black porgy (<highlight rend="italic">Acanthopagrus latus</highlight>) retrieved as an articulated specimen at the Syrian site of Tell Brak (2100 BC). The find has taphonomical and palaeocultural interest for it attests commerce with lower Mesopotamia. Furthermore, its status might have more to do with symbolism or ritual than with any strictly utilitarian purpose, although complementary information is necessary in order to substantiate such a hypothesis (p 339).

SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF

Fauna

Cultural stratigraphy

Diet

Internal trade

Preservation and storage of food

Transportation

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

AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection

John Beierle; 2008

Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document

no date

Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to

4334-4113 BP (2334-2113 BC)

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

Eufrasia Roselló Izquierdo, Arturo Morales Muñiz

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