The Aramaeans in Ancient Syria

174 herbert niehr raised his hands in prayer to Baʿalšamayin and the god answered him (lines 11–12). Baʿalšamayin spoke to the k ...

religion 175 in 1899, r. Koldewey found a stele in Babylon with the depiction of the weather-god of aleppo identified by a hiero ...

176 herbert niehr Despite excavations in neirab there is as yet no archaeological evidence of a temple there. two sepulchral ste ...

religion 177 were duplicated. therefore, a corresponding temple must exist in the kingdom of Bit agusi. at samʾal the inscriptio ...

178 herbert niehr lies in defining what typical temple architecture is. one can generally expect that a certain part of the pala ...

religion 179 altar and a pedestal are visible. another altar stood before the temple.255 researchers have long since recognized ...

180 herbert niehr remains of orthostats with lion representations, a basalt stele depicting a scene of a meal, an aniconic stele ...

religion 181 of the temple. there are no written sources that allow us to attribute this temple to a specific deity. the acropol ...

182 herbert niehr to the practice of divination belongs an 8th-century-B.c. bronze bowl with aramaic inscriptions and astral ima ...

religion 183 these are rites for the demonstratio ad oculos accompanying the treaty’s conclusion ceremony. that they were actual ...

184 herbert niehr (ca. 840–810 B.c.) and panamuwa i (ca. 790–750 B.c.).279 as part of the sacrificial rules in the stele’s inscr ...

religion 185 Fragment of a basalt statue of a standing male; a remnant of the beard survives, while the head and legs are missi ...

186 herbert niehr the hadad statue and grave chamber presented an architectural and ritualistic ensemble for the king’s funeral ...

religion 187 ancestor cult images of the deceased king were placed in various temples, and also in the temple of the weather-god ...

188 herbert niehr royal funerary cult. it can be seen at most as a royal offering rite. as the inscription puts it: (21) and the ...

religion 189 (3) this chamber: a bull for hadad (of) Qrpdl,302 a ram for nika- (4) rawas,303 a ram for Šamaš, a ram for hadad of ...

190 herbert niehr far as the inscriptions from tayma (4th century B.c.),310 from further sites in northern and southern arabia,3 ...

religion 191 (Kai 225 and 226; pls. xVii and xix) close to the location of the original find.319 these two stelae lay north and ...

192 herbert niehr with me any vessel (7) of silver or bronze. With my garment (only) they placed me, so that (8) in the future m ...

religion 193 4. Middle Syria the following kingdoms and cities give insight into the religion of the area east of lebanon: the k ...