The Melammu Project

The Heritage of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East

  The Melammu Project
  Database
   General description
   Search string
   Browse by topic
   Search keyword
   Submit entry
  Bibliographies
   About
   Open search
   Thematic search
   Digital Library
   Submit item
  Links
   Ancient texts
   Dictionaries
   Projects
   Varia
   Submit link
  FAQ
  Contact us
  About

  The Newsletter
  To Project Information >

I lifted up my hands … (1)

Printable view

Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Prayer with uplifted hands 02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs 02.09 Symbolism of gestures 02.09.01 Hand gestures 02.09.01.01 Prayer with uplifted hands	Keywords prayers
Period No period specified	Channel No channel specified

Text
Lifting up the hands as a prayer gesture is attested in Mesopotamian culture as well as in the religious and mythological texts of Ugarit, Old Aramaic, Hebrew Bible and Greece in thousands of examples.

Bibliography

West 1997, 43

West, Martin L. The East Face of Helicon. West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1997.

Amar Annus

URL for this entry: http://www.aakkl.helsinki.fi/melammu/database/gen_html/a0001189.php

Illustrations
No pictures

^
T
O
P