The God Pakeidas in Jerash – His Worship through Archaeological and Epgraphical Sources-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The God Pakeidas in Jerash – His Worship through Archaeological and Epgraphical Sources

Published:2022-10-21 Issue: Volume:29 Page:219-236
ISSN:2084-3909
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Author:

Kubiak-Schneider Aleksandra¹^ORCID,Lichtenberger Achim²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. National Museum in Warsaw, Poland

2. University of Münster (Münster, Germany)

Abstract

The finds from the ancient city of Gerasa brought in 1930’two inscriptions dated to the second half of the 1st century CE which mention the deity called Pakeidas. The aim of this paper is to discuss Pakeidas and his relation to another god labelled Theos Arabikos worshipped in the same city. The authors make a broad Semitic overview on the etymology of the name Pakeidas looking at the West and East (Akkadian) Semitic evidence. The authors discuss the possible location of the temple dedicated to this god beneath the Cathedral. They also reexamine in the light of epigraphic sources in comparison to the Aramaic material from the Near East the function of archibomistai, cultic agents who served to this local god.

Funder

Narodowe Centrum Nauki

Publisher

Uniwersytet Jagiellonski - Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego

Subject

Archeology,History,Archeology,Classics

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