Fish and Fasting ‒ Insight into the Diet of Late Antique-Byzantine Dülük Baba Tepesi

Fish and Fasting ‒ Insight into the Diet of Late Antique-Byzantine Dülük Baba TepesiAsia Minor Studien 84, Dolichener und Kommagenische Forschungen 9Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/HJIDQ9XG/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.NadjaPöllathJorisPetersFish and Fasting ‒ Insight into the Diet of Late Antique-Byzantine Dülük Baba Tepesihttp://syriaca.org/cbss/HJIDQ9XGhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/HJIDQ9XGhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/HJIDQ9XGEngelbertWinterVom eisenzeitlichen Heiligtum zum christlichen Kloster: Neue Forschungen auf dem Dülük Baba TepesiBonnDr. Rudolf Habelt2017231-248Asia Minor Studien 84, Dolichener und Kommagenische Forschungen 9The animal bones originating from the post-Roman occupation of Dülük Baba Tepesi can be subdivided into two units: Finds from the filling of the kitchen of the Byzantine monastery and Late Antique-Byzantine finds from others trenches. Remains of sheep, goat and cattle dominate the assemblages summing up to 90% within both units. Differences become visible among the other taxa: The faunal spectrum coming from the kitchen is by far more diverse including deer, hare, wild boar, chicken, chukar partridge, geese and catfish. The catfish remains are of particular interest since they are of minor numerical importance in the faunal remains from other contemporaneous sites in the wider region. Fish was obviously more important in the diet of monastic communities than in the diet of ordinary people. Since there are no appropriate waterbodies in the direct vicinity of Dülük Baba Tepesi it can be hypothesized that ponds were built to provide the monastery with fish, which was the only allowed source of meat on some of the many fasting days. Pöllath, Nadja, and Joris Peters. “Fish and Fasting ‒ Insight into the Diet of Late Antique-Byzantine Dülük Baba Tepesi.” In Vom Eisenzeitlichen Heiligtum Zum Christlichen Kloster: Neue Forschungen Auf Dem Dülük Baba Tepesi, edited by Engelbert Winter, 231–48. Asia Minor Studien 84, Dolichener Und Kommagenische Forschungen 9. Bonn: Dr. Rudolf Habelt, 2017. Nadja Pöllath and Joris Peters, Fish and Fasting ‒ Insight into the Diet of Late Antique-Byzantine Dülük Baba Tepesi, in Vom Eisenzeitlichen Heiligtum Zum Christlichen Kloster: Neue Forschungen Auf Dem Dülük Baba Tepesi, ed. Engelbert Winter, Asia Minor Studien 84, Dolichener Und Kommagenische Forschungen 9 (Bonn: Dr. Rudolf Habelt, 2017), 231–48.CommageneIV-VII CEarchaeologyfastfishfoodmonasteriesmonasticism