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The God Pakeidas in Jerash – His Worship through Archaeological and Epgraphical Sources

Publication date: 21.10.2022

ELECTRUM, 2022, Volume 29, pp. 219 - 236

https://doi.org/10.4467/20800909EL.22.014.15784

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Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider
University of Wrocław, plac Uniwersytecki 1, 50-137 Wrocław, Poland
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Achim Lichtenberger
University of Münster (Münster, Germany)
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The God Pakeidas in Jerash – His Worship through Archaeological and Epgraphical Sources

Abstract

The finds from the ancient city of Gerasa brought in 1930’two inscriptions dated to the second half of the 1st century CE which mention the deity called Pakeidas. The aim of this paper is to discuss Pakeidas and his relation to another god labelled Theos Arabikos worshipped in the same city. The authors make a broad Semitic overview on the etymology of the name Pakeidas looking at the West and East (Akkadian) Semitic evidence. The authors discuss the possible location of the temple dedicated to this god beneath the Cathedral. They also reexamine in the light of epigraphic sources in comparison to the Aramaic material from the Near East the function of archibomistai, cultic agents who served to this local god.

Abbreviations

CIS –J.-B. Chabot (ed.), Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum, Pars Secunda, vol. III: Inscriptiones Palmyrenae, Paris 1926–1927.

IGLS –L. Jalabert et al., Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie, Beyrouth–Paris 1929–

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Information: ELECTRUM, 2022, Volume 29, pp. 219 - 236

Article type: Original article

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3273-2447

Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider
University of Wrocław, plac Uniwersytecki 1, 50-137 Wrocław, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3273-2447 Orcid
All publications →

University of Wrocław, plac Uniwersytecki 1, 50-137 Wrocław, Poland

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2653-9859

Achim Lichtenberger
University of Münster (Münster, Germany)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2653-9859 Orcid
All publications →

University of Münster (Münster, Germany)

Published at: 21.10.2022

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This paper is an outcome of a cooperation between the authors during a 10-month WiRe fellowship, Women in Research at the University of Münster, between October 2020 and July 2021. The improvements for this research are funded by National Science Centre (Poland) UMO-2021/42/A/HS3/00421 “Epigraphic culture in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East in antiquity: status, display, democracy, identity.” For the purpose of Open Access, the author has applied a CC-BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) version arising from this submission.

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