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....

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

origins was lost. Several motifs replicate the features associated with the Akitu spring festival of ancient Mesopotamian religion, which celebrates the sowing...

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...

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

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...

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

because he had already returned from Harran and had participated in the Akitu of Nissanu 1 [4 April], 539 BC. Waters, Matt, "CYRUS AND SUSA", Revue d'Assyriologie...

the reign of Artaxerxes I mentions the existence of a temple meant for an akitu festival connected to Zababa in Kish as well. Outside Kish, Zababa temples...

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...

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...

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...

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...

of Babylon in 689 BCE, reformed aspects of Ashur's cult. He built a new akītu house in Assur, and Ashur instead of Marduk was the centre of the festival...