Portable Altars
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In a recent book on ancient rituals (Abusch and Schwemer 2016), some passages concern ‘portable altars’. For example :
‘you sweep the g(round), you sprinkle pure water, you SET UP TWO PORTABLE ALTARS (before Sîn and Shamash)’ (Abusch and Schwemer 2016: 291, text 8.36, l.4)
References
Abusch, T. and Schwemer, D. 2016. Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-Witchcraft Rituals, Ancient Magic and Divination 8/2. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
Battini, L. 2017. L’épiphanie divine en Mésopotamie a travers les terres cuites. Akkadica 138: 69-106.
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27/10/2017
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Battini, L. (2017). Portable Altars. Ash-Sharq: Bulletin of the Ancient Near East – Archaeological, Historical and Societal Studies, 1(2), 293. Retrieved from https://archaeopresspublishing.com/ojs/index.php/ash-sharq/article/view/775
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