Banqueting with the Gods: New Sources on Ritual and Cult from Old Babylonian Sippar

This article publishes nine new texts relating to ritual and cult in Old Babylonian Sippar. On internal grounds, they likely stem from Sippar-Amnānum (Tell ed-Dēr). Seven of these explicitly attest the banquets of particular deities, including Gula, Adad, Sîn, Šamaš, and Ea. Evidence for the influence of Annunītum and her cultic household is given in the texts. One text attests a night-vigil and provides evidence for a ritual most likely connected to (Ištar) Annunītum.