Animals as Offerings: Faunal Remains from the Carthage <i>tophet</i>-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Animals as Offerings: Faunal Remains from the Carthage tophet

Published:2023-11-15 Issue:2 Volume:11 Page:210-227
ISSN:2324-8114
Container-title:Journal of Ancient History
language:en
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Author:

Fulton Deirdre N.¹,Hesse Paula²,Burns Peter³

Affiliation:

1. Department of Religion , Baylor University , Waco, TX, USA United States of America

2. Independent Scholar-State College, PA , USA United States of America

3. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology-Cambridge, MA , USA. United States of America

Abstract

Abstract The non-human animal remains excavated in the Carthage tophet represent a substantial sample of animal bones from a single site. The urns contain partial or whole sheep or goat (ovicaprids) carcasses in abundant numbers, revealing a consistent offering of ovicaprids, some birds, and in a very few cases, fish. Overwhelmingly, the animals are whole-burnt offerings, sacrificed as an offering to the deity or deities. The consistency of the age of the cremated ovicaprids that were interred in the urns allows for a profile of relating animal remains to ritual behavior that took place at the Carthage tophet.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

General Medicine

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/jah-2023-0014/pdf

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