Ordalie de Marduk: Les voyages de la statue d'un dieu babylonien

L'Ordalie de Marduk (ou Prophétie de Marduk) est un document assyrien datant de 713 à 612 avant notre ère, trouvé dans un bâtiment connu sous le nom de Maison de l'Exorciste, adjacent à un temple de la ville d'Assur. Il relate les voyages de la statue du dieu babylonien Marduk depuis sa ville natale jusqu'aux terres des Hittites, des Assyriens et des Élamites et prophétise son retour aux mains d'un puissant roi babylonien.

The Marduk Prophecy: Travels of the Statue of a Babylonian God

The Marduk Prophecy is historical fiction created to celebrate the victory over the Elamites of Nebuchadnezzar I. It is not so much relevant as history as it is in understanding the great value the people of a city placed on their patron deity. Marduk was not just some invisible, ethereal being one prayed to in time of need or praised in time of plenty, but a close friend and neighbor who lived just down the road. In the same way one would be distressed today to find one had lost a close friend, so was it to the ancient Babylonians when the statue of their god was taken from them.

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Vessel terminating in the forepart of a bull

Hittite, Central Anatolia, c. 14th-13th century BCE

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