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Byblian Damu in the Amarna letter (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Festival of Tammuz (Tammuz/summer solstice) 03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices 03.01 Public festivals 03.01.03 Festival of Tammuz (Tammuz/summer solstice) Syncretism 01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery 01.04 Concept of god (1) 01.04.03 Plurality of god (polytheism) 01.04.03.04 Syncretism	Keywords Tammuz
Period Middle Assyrian Empire	Channel Amarna correspondence

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Damu = Adonis = Tammuz.

el-Amarna Letters 84.31-35:
May my lord send men to take the possessions of Damu to the king, my lord, lest that dog take the possessions of your god.

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el-Amarna Letters 84.31-35

Bibliography

Mettinger 2001, 137

Mettinger, T. Riddle of Resurrection. "Dying and Rising Gods" in the Ancient Near East. Coniectanea Biblica Old Testament Series 50. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International 2001.

Amar Annus

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