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The Rules of the House (of Gods): Administrative and Ritual Norms of the Palmyrene Temples

Publication date: 26.06.2023

ELECTRUM, 2023, Volume 30, pp. 293 - 306

https://doi.org/10.4467/20800909EL.23.010.17327

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Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider
University of Wrocław, plac Uniwersytecki 1, 50-137 Wrocław, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3273-2447 Orcid
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The Rules of the House (of Gods): Administrative and Ritual Norms of the Palmyrene Temples

Abstract

The epigraphic record from Palmyra brings light on the organization of the temples: personnel, management of feasts, economy and on the ritual practices towards certain deities like Allat and Shai ‘al-Qaum. These texts were previously called in the research literature “sacred laws”and what the scholarly debate nowadays labels with the term “ritual norms.”The aim of this paper, divided on the temple economy and personnel, and ritual behavior, is to understand through the scraps of information the administration of the Palmyrene temples and processes which shaped the life in the places of worship.

Abbreviations

CAD – L. Oppenheim et al. (eds.), TheAssyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, vol. 10: M, Chicago 1977.

DNWSI – J. Hoftijzer, K. Jongeling, Dictionary of North-West Semitic Inscriptions, 2 vols., Leiden 1995.

IGLS – J. Aliquot, Inscriptions Grecques et Latines de la Syrie, vol. 11: Mount Hermon, Beyrouth 2008.

PAT – E. Cussini, D. R. Hillers, Palmyrene Aramaic Texts, Baltimore 1996.

RTP – H. Ingholt, H. Seyrig, J. Starcky, A. Caquot, Recueil des Tessères de Palmyre, Paris 1955.

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Information: ELECTRUM, 2023, Volume 30, pp. 293 - 306

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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

Published at: 26.06.2023

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* This research is part of the project Al-At: People of the gods. The Worshippers of Allat and Atargatis in the 4th century BCE to the 4th century CE, no. 2021/43/P/HS3/02595 co-founded by the National Science Centre (Poland) and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement no.945339. For the purpose of Open Access, the author has applied a CC-BY public copyright license to any Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) version arising from this submission.

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Kubiak-Schneider, A., 2023. The Rules of the House (of Gods): Administrative and Ritual Norms of the Palmyrene Temples. ELECTRUM, Volume 30 (2023), pp. 293-306