instruments preserved from before the Spanish conquest in the 16th century. Lilissu was the name of a sacred kettle drum usually made of bronze in Mesopotamia...
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objects, such as a ceremonial torch, the hide of a bull which is to cover a lilissu- or kettledrum, the apotropaic figurines used in the Šēp lemutti ritual...
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to another instrument associated with them, a type of kettledrum called lilissu. However, Ninigizibara herself was never regarded as a drum. The name of...
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his provision of a copper Lilis for Utu and Inanna respectively, where Lilissu is a kettledrum used in temple rituals. He is perhaps best known for the...
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his provision of a copper Lilis for Utu and Inanna respectively, where Lilissu is a kettledrum used in temple rituals. He is perhaps best known for the...
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local ruler of Sippar contemporary with Sumulael, states that he brought a lilissu drum to her temple. A gate and a district of the city also were named after...
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