Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
Kispu
Ancient Mesopotamian ritual of veneration of the dead From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
Kispu or kispum[1] was an ancient Mesopotamian ritual in which the ancestors were venerated, nourished and cared.[2] The ritual included regular offering of food and drinks to the deads.[3][4] Textual evidence for the kispu were found from as early as the 3rd millennium BC; these evidence indicate the ceremony included sacrifices and offerings.[2] The textual evidence allow identification of archaeological findings, such as masses of dining vessels near secondary burial skeletons the royal hypogeum at Qatna,[5] with the kispu.[2][6]
Remove ads
See also
- Lofani in Mandaeism
Further reading
- Tsukimoto, Akio (2010). "Peace for the Dead, or kispu(m) Again". Orient. 45: 101–109. doi:10.5356/orient.45.101.
- Bayliss, Miranda (1973). "The Cult of Dead Kin in Assyria and Babylonia". Iraq. 35 (2): 115–125. doi:10.2307/4199959. ISSN 0021-0889.
References
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads