Akitu or Akitum (Sumerian: 𒀉𒆠𒋾, romanized: a-ki-ti) (Akkadian: 𒀉𒆠𒌈, romanized: akītu(m)) is a spring festival and New Year's celebration, held on...

Akitu festival in Babylon, and Sargon II made Babylon his temporary residence while Dur-Sharrukin was under construction and took part in the Akitu....

also known as Resha d-Sheta (Syriac: ܪܫܐ ܕܫܢܬܐ, "Head of the year") and as Akitu (ܐܟܝܬܘ), or Assyrian New Year,[unreliable source?] is the spring festival...

the first came in 1952 and written by Nimrod Simono and dealt with the Akitu festival, then an article by Jean Alkhas in 1955 (April, issue 34) fixed...

Kassite date is also sometimes proposed. It may have been recited during the Akitu festival. Some late Assyrian versions replace Marduk with Ashur. Before...

Antonio Tempesta, 1610 The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1563 Akitu Cities of the ancient Near East Euphrates Tunnel – Legendary tunnel under...

in Babylonia, and several traditionally Babylonian rituals, such as the akitu festival, were borrowed in the north. Ashur's role as the chief deity was...

Sumerian goddess Inanna (later known as Ishtar) from the underworld, in the Akitu ceremony, with parades through the Ishtar Gate to the Eanna temple and the...

Proto-Armenian Sutean Sumerian Urartian Culture/society Architecture Art Akitu Cuneiform Babylonian astronomy Babylonian mathematics Akkadian literature...

Proto-Armenian Sutean Sumerian Urartian Culture/society Architecture Art Akitu Cuneiform Babylonian astronomy Babylonian mathematics Akkadian literature...

connection between the Babylonian festival Akitu and Rosh Hashanah, as there are some striking similarities. The Akitu festival of Ur was celebrated in the...

Alberto Nicolas (2016). Balancing Power and Space: a Spatial Analysis of the Akītu Festival in Babylon after 626 BCE (Master's thesis). Universiteit Leiden...

the Seleucid empire, but Aramaic continued in use.." Julye Bidmead, The Akitu Festival: Religious Continuity and Royal Legitimation in Mesopotamia, (Gorgias...

local mythos and its divine Patrons The success of the reigning Monarch The Akitu, or New Year Festival (first full moon after spring equinox) Commemoration...

and All Souls' Day are observed in the spring in the Southern hemisphere. Akitu (Ancient Mesopotamia, Sumer, Babylonia) Bihu (India) Chinese New Year Floriade...

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being used for religious or military purposes. The Babylonians celebrated Akitu by parading their deities and performing rituals. To celebrate the federal...

the Babylonians celebrated the New Year during a 12-day festival called Akitu (starting with the vernal equinox). This was the start of the farming season...

of Nebonidus dated to 150 BC) and the disruption that this caused to the Akitu (New Year) festival for a period of ten years. The eighth year is purposefully...

night sky. Both are essentially equivalent in all respects to the Akkadian "Akitu" festival. In some variations, Marduk is slain by Tiamat on the winter solstice...

Proto-Armenian Sutean Sumerian Urartian Culture/society Architecture Art Akitu Cuneiform Babylonian astronomy Babylonian mathematics Akkadian literature...

Proto-Armenian Sutean Sumerian Urartian Culture/society Architecture Art Akitu Cuneiform Babylonian astronomy Babylonian mathematics Akkadian literature...

strongly suggests that the Emesene cult was inspired by the Babylonian Akitu-festival. According to Cassius Dio, the Emperor also tried to bring about...

Farmer's Almanac", after the flood season and after the Spring equinox and the Akitu or New Year Festival, using the canals, farmers would flood their fields...

him as ruler, Tiglath-Pileser twice partook in the traditional Babylonian Akitu (New Year's) celebrations, held in honor of the Babylonian national deity...

that Babylon was captured on 16th Tašrîtu, which was the night before the akitu festival in honor of Sin, the moon god. The Cyropaedia, a partly fictional...

by Sidney Smith's publication of the Esarhaddon Chronicle (ABC 14), the Akitu Chronicle (ABC 16) and the Nabonidus Chronicle (ABC 7), and in 1956 by Donald...

Middle Persian derivatives, is attributed to the Achaemenian period)." Akitu was the Babylonian festivity held during the spring month of Nisan in which...

Assyria used a system of eponyms to identify each year. Each year at the Akitu festival (celebrating the Mesopotamian new year), one of a small group of...

Proto-Armenian Sutean Sumerian Urartian Culture/society Architecture Art Akitu Cuneiform Babylonian astronomy Babylonian mathematics Akkadian literature...