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Babylonian substitute king festival (1)

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03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices


 		Keywords
Babylon
Berossus
festivals
substitution
Period
3rd century BCE
2nd century CE
Hellenistic Empires
Roman Empire 		Channel
Hellenistic philosophers and scholars
Helleno-Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Berossus, Babyloniaca F2 (Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 14.44):
Berossus says in the first book of the Babyloniaca that a festival called Sacaea is celebrated in Babylon for a period of five days beginning with the sixteenth day of the month Loos (= Tammuz); and that during these days it is the custom for masters to be ruled by their slaves; and that one of the slaves puts on a robe similar to that of a king and manages the affairs of the house. This slave is called Zoganes. Ctesias also relates this festival in the second book of his Persica.

Sources (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 14.44
Berossus, Babyloniaca F2

Bibliography

Burstein 1978, 17Burstein, Stanley M. The Babyloniaca of Berossus. Sources from the Ancient Near East 1.5. Malibu: Undena Publications 1978.

Amar Annus


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