Children of Kubaba: Serious Games, Ritual Toys, and Divination at Iron Age Carchemish
This paper presents an analysis of a ritual event memorialised on stone reliefs at the ancient city of Carchemish around 800 BC. It is argued that the reliefs represent a ceremony of investiture, in which boys of royal lineage are handed out toys as oracular instruments to elicit favourable omens fo...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI
2022
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Religions
Year: 2022, Volume: 13, Issue: 10 |
| Further subjects: | B
astragalomancy
B childhood studies B Material Religion B political rituals B Game Studies B anthropology of play B Luwian Studies B cleromancy B mantic B augury |
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