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Meyer's copy of the Assurbanipal brick inscriptions (1) which he and Haynes read as MeliŠipak (M, 25/06/1894: 79).
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... Above the upper pavement (probably of Assurbanipal) the remains of two structures flanking a street were found. 50 These buildings may clearly be identified with the section of the Parthian Phase II remains published by Fisher (1907, I.14, Grid H/K and 6/7) and discussed by Keall (1970, 32, Figure 4). 51 ...
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... 360−361), built over the former main sanctuary of Enlil, latest with the reign of Šarkališarri (around c. 2200 BCE) called in Sumerian Ekur, "House/ Temple, Mountain" (c. 2750 until at least 150 BCE) (Clayden & Schneider ,2015;Schneider 2017Schneider , 2018. Furthermore, about 100 m to the Southwest of the latter, a Parthian version of a traditional Mesopotamian temple plan with broad rooms and in its center a double-cella including ante-cella and courtyard, surrounded by an L-shaped corridor at two sides (southeast and southwest), was built over comparable earlier versions of the temple of Inanna (c. ...
The common meal with deities comprises one of the most popular religious rituals. Itresults from the popularity of offerings composed with such alimentary items like meat, bread,fruits, wine, oil, etc. This paper deals with the sacred dimension of the cultic banquets on theexample of epigraphical and archaeological evidence. As case-studies are presented two cities:the Northern Mesopotamian city of Hatra (ca. 290 km northwest of Baghdad) and the SouthernMesopotamian city of Nippur (ca. 150 km southeast of Baghdad). The case of Hatrene sacralarchitecture together with written material in the local dialect of Aramaic defines very similarstructures in Nippur as sacred space for cultic meals and helps to reconstruct the practices in theperiod from 1st c. to the mid-3rd century CE.
