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Nisan 6th as “the good day” (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Palmyra 12 Assyrian Identity 12.03 Assyrian identity in Christian Era 12.03.02 Continuity of “Old Faith” beside Christianity 12.03.02.07 Palmyra Spring New year’s festival (Nisan/vernal equinox) 03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices 03.01 Public festivals 03.01.01 Spring New year’s festival (Nisan/vernal equinox)	Keywords calendars cults
Period 2nd century CE	Channel Helleno-Roman inscriptions

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Inventaire des Inscriptions de Palmyre 6.13:
[ … ...] a burnt offering, every year on the good day, for ever, the year 474, on the sixth (day) in the month Xandikos. (6 April, 163 CE)

Source (list of abbreviations)
Inventaire des Inscriptions de Palmyre 6.13

Bibliography

Kaizer 2002, 208

Kaizer, Ted. The Religious Life of Palmyra. A Study of the Social Patterns of Worship in the Roman Period. Oriens et occidens 4. Stuttgart: Steiner 2002.

Amar Annus

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