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Religious festival of Mesopotamian origin in Edessa (1)

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12 Assyrian Identity
12 Assyrian Identity
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices


 		Keywords
Edessa
festivals
Period
2nd century CE
Roman Empire 		Channel
Christian-Greek philosophers and scholars

Text
Acts of Sharbel:
The whole city was assembled together near the great altar which is in the middle of the city opposite the office of records, all the gods having been brought together, and then been decorated, and set up in honour, both Nebo and Bel together with their companions. And all the high priests were offering sweet incense and libations, and the odour of the sacrifices was diffusing itself, and sheep and oxen were being slaughtered, and the voice of the harp and the tabor was heard in the whole of the city.

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Acts of Sharbel

Bibliography

Millar 1993, 487Millar, Fergus. The Roman Near East 31 BC - AD 337. Cambridge MA, London: Harvard University Press 1993.

Amar Annus


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