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Death and resurrection of Dumuzi (1)

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03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices



 		Keywords
Dumuzi
resurrection
Period
Old Assyrian and Old Babylonian Empires 		Channel
Old Assyrian and Old Babylonian texts

Text
Mari Letter A.1146.39-44:
As for me, look at me. Not yet … I escaped from death, and from the midst of Ahuna [I escaped] ten times during uprising[s]. Why, now [am I not] like Dumuzi? They kill him, at the [time of] counting the year. [In the spring,] he always comes back to the temple of Annunitum.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Mari Letter A.1146.39-44

Bibliography

Marello 1992Marello, P. “Vie Nomade.” In: J.-M. Durand (ed.). Recueil d'études en l'honneur de Michel Fleury. Florilegium Maniarum. Mémoires de NABU 1. Paris: SEPOA 1992, 115-125.
Mettinger 2001, 201Mettinger, 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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