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Persian customs = Assyrian customs (1)

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Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
12 Assyrian Identity
12.02 Assyrian identity in post-Empire times
12.02.03 Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
Devotees of Ištar
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
03.02 Cult of Ištar
03.02.02 Devotees of Ištar
Identification of the Babylonian Empire with Assyria/Syria
12 Assyrian Identity
12.02 Assyrian identity in post-Empire times
12.02.03 Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
12.02.03.02 Identification of the Babylonian Empire with Assyria/Syria
Sacred prostitutes
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
03.02 Cult of Ištar
03.02.07 Sacred prostitutes

Keywords
Assyria
Babylonia
Persia
sacred prostitution

Period
1st century CE
Roman Empire

Channel
Helleno-Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Strabo 16.1.19-20:
… after briefly going over the customs of Assyria. Now in general their customs are like those of the Persians … And in accordance with a certain oracle all the Babylonian women have a custom of having intercourse with a foreigner, the woman going to a temple of Aphrodite.

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Strabo 16.1.19-20

Simo Parpola

URL for this entry: http://www.aakkl.helsinki.fi/melammu/database/gen_html/a0000020.php

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