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Iranians offering in Esagil (1)

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Animal sacrifices
12 Assyrian Identity
12.03 Assyrian identity in Christian Era
12.03.03 Assyrian substratum features in early Syriac Christianity
12.03.03.13 Animal sacrifices
Astronomical diaries
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05.01 Astrological and astronomical knowledge and theories
05.01.10 Astronomical and astrological texts
05.01.10.06 Astronomical diaries

Keywords
Babylon
offerings
Parthians

Period
1st century BCE

Channel
Iranian culture

Text
Some astronomical diaries record a Parthian campaign in 77 BCE against Kamnascires, the king of Elymais, with the mention of a royal ancestral cult performed by the Iranian Artavanta: “ … Artavanta, who instead of the dean of the Esagil temple and the Babylonians [made] an offering of two bulls and two sheep … “

Sources (list of abbreviations)
LBAT 515
LBAT 516

Bibliography

MacEwan 1986, 91, 94 and n23

MacEwan, G. J. P. “A Parthian campaign against Elymais in 77 BC.” Iran 24 (1986) 91-94.

Andrea Piras

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