On 8/4/05, Peter Kirk wrote:
On the issue of "the widely attested month of the Xiaru festival,
("donkey festival")", do you know of any evidence for which month,
relative to the solar year, this was celebrated? I am interested in this
for another purpose.
The following is from the discussion of the month at Alalakh at the
aforementioned book:
... [quoting "Cultic Calendars of the ANE" by Mark Cohen]
The xijaru festival was observed in Ugarit on the 18th of the second month,
Xiyaru. ...
Apparently this festival is also discussed in other places in the book, but I don't have those pages on hand. Note that Iyyar is the second month of the Babylonian calendar, the same month as it was celebrated in Ugarit. However, it is likely that Ugarit's calendar began in the autumn, since their new year is related to wine. ...
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