Sacred meals in Hatra and Nippur in late Parthian times

• Authors: Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider , Bernhard Schneider

Abstracts

EN

The common meal with deities comprises one of the most popular religious rituals. It results 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 the example 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 Southern Mesopotamian city of Nippur (ca. 150 km southeast of Baghdad). The case of Hatrene sacral architecture together with written material in the local dialect of Aramaic defines very similar structures in Nippur as sacred space for cultic meals and helps to reconstruct the practices in the period from 1st c. to the mid-3rd century CE.

Keywords

EN

archaeology; architecture; Parthians; epigraphy; Near East; Middle East; religion; polytheism; Hatra; Nippur; Mesopotamia; feasting; banquet

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Religioznawcze
• Journal: Przegląd Religioznawczy
• Year: 2023
• Issue: 2/288
• Pages: 149-162

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider

• University of Wrocław

• https://orcid.org/000000015104655X

author

Bernhard Schneider

• University of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński

• https://orcid.org/000000015104655X

Identifiers

DOI

10.34813/ptr2.2023.12

Biblioteka Nauki

44775994