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Under Enki’s Lordship: Water and Its Powers in the Ritual Sphere of First-Millennium BC Mesopotamia
No full textThe study analyses how water, its symbolism related to the god Enki and the mythical Abzu, and associated cultural meanings deeply shaped Syro-Mesopotamian societies and their worldviews. After an introduction concerning water in Mesopotamian cosmology, the study focuses on the mythical dimension of this element and its role as the conceptual background of ritual practitioners in the 1st millennium BC. As examples of the practical use of water as a ritual substance, the use of water is analysed in the evidence of Assyrian ritual practices of the 1st millennium BC
Garments, Parts of Textiles, and Textile Techniques in the Assyrian Terminology: the Neo-Assyrian Textile Lexicon in the Light of the First Millennium BC Linguistic Context
No full textGolden Appliqués in Assyrian Textiles: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Neo-Assyrian Evidence and Some Remarks on the Use of Dress Decorations in the Periphery of the Empire in Later Times
No full textThe Textile Dimension of Cult: The Ritual Construction of Performers, Victims, Objects and Spaces in the Assyrian and Babylonian Cult (First Millennium BC)
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S. Salah, Die mittelassyrischen Personen- und Rationenlisten aus Tall Šēḫ Ḥamad/Dūr-Katlimmu (Berichte der Ausgrabung Tall Šēḫ Ḥamad/Dūr-Katlimmu Band 18, Texte 6), Wiesbaden 2014
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