The banquet/dinner scenes in the Late Hittite, New Assyrian and Urartu civilization

The banquet / dinner scenes in the Late Hittite, New Assyrian and Urartu Civilizations reveal a certain cultural accumulation and artistic development. The Late Hittite civilization consisting of many principals is a continuation of the Hittite State. In the Late Hittite Kingdoms, banquets / dinners scenes are placed on orthostats, stellar, pyxis, necklace and seal. The most common food scene in the late Hittite art is on the grave stellars. In these scenes of dead dishes, the figures are sometimes face to face, sometimes only one sits. Apart from the dead meal, musical feast banquets are also seen in the Hittites. Hittite written documents give information about these ceremonies. In the New Assyrian period banquets / food scenes are seen on wall reliefs, cylinder seals, pyxislar and ivory pieces of furniture. Assyrian visual arts and written documents indicate that after the victory was feast. Some of these ceremonies for the soldiers, King II. Sargon's (721-705 BC) in the important rooms are in stone plates. The banquet of King Asurbanipal (668-630 BC) and his wife together in an outdoor music concert was made after Elam victory. The demonstration of victory as a celebration is a continuation of a tradition that has been seen since the early days of Mesopotamian art. In addition to Assyrian art, written documents also give information about how the banquet and food is made. There is a lot of information on the inscription, called the banquet stellar, from the people to attend the ceremony to the food items. These ceremonies, understood from the texts, had been occuring in the general of the city, and the majority of the participants were people. The banquets / dinner scenes, in the Urartu Kingdom are seen on belts, votive plates and seals. These scenes were prepared solely for women, solely for men or together with men and women. In Urartian texts also the information, regording banquets or meals is limited.