The Cults of Uruk and Babylon: The Temple Ritual Texts as Evidence for Hellenistic Cult Practice: 25 (Cuneiform Monographs, 25) - Hardcover

Marc J.H. Linssen

 
9789004124028: The Cults of Uruk and Babylon: The Temple Ritual Texts as Evidence for Hellenistic Cult Practice: 25 (Cuneiform Monographs, 25)

Synopsis

This publication provides new information about the temple ritual texts from ancient Mesopotamia, in particular from the cities Uruk and Babylon, and shows how important the public cults were in Hellenistic times, at least until the first century B.C.

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About the Author

Marc Linssen, Ph.D. (2002) in Assyriology, Free University of Amsterdam, currently works at the Humanities department of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). In his research he concentrates on religion, cult and magic in ancient Mesopotamia.

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