Cultures in contact in the Syrian Lower Middle Euphrates Valley : aspects of the Local Cults in the Iron Age II
Recent researches in the Lower Middle Euphrates valley, in the Syrian and in Iraqi sections, have contributed to change the way to reconstruct the origins and the evolution of the local Aramaean culture and its social/political organization since Iron I period. While the continuity of at least some...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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IFAPO
2009
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Syria
Year: 2009, Volume: 86, Pages: 141-147 |
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| Summary: | Recent researches in the Lower Middle Euphrates valley, in the Syrian and in Iraqi sections, have contributed to change the way to reconstruct the origins and the evolution of the local Aramaean culture and its social/political organization since Iron I period. While the continuity of at least some aspects of the Early Bronze Age and Amorite traditions in the first millennium Middle Euphrates civilization can be now better argued and demonstrated, the relations of the local “Aramaean” cultures with non-regional strong state and imperial powers, as Assyria or Babylon, have still to be evaluated. A survey of the religious traditions —myths, cults, iconography—, and of their origins and evolution, documented in Iron II societies of the Lower Middle Euphrates —as Sirqu, Suhu-Anat and Kâr-Aššurnaṣirpal—, can offer an opportunity to realise the measure and the direction of these exchanges, analysing the changes in progress in the area, before the contacts with the Persian and classical world. |
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| ISSN: | 2076-8435 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Syria
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.4000/syria.522 |