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1981 “The New Year Ceremonies in Ancient Babylon: ‘Taking Bel by the Hand’ and a Cultic Picnic”, Religion 11 (1981), pp.39-59.
Frymer-Kensky, T.
1983 “The Tribulations of Marduk: The So-called ‘Marduk Ordeal Text'”, JAOS 103 (1983), pp.131-141.
Jacobsen, T.
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Pallis, Svend Aage
1926 The Babylonian Akitu Festival, Copenhagen, 1926.
Pongratz-Leisten, Beate
1994 Ina Šulmi Irub: Die kulttopographische und ideologische Programmatik der akitu-Prozession in Babylonien und Assyrien im 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr., [Baghdader Forschungen 16], Verlag Phillip von Zabern: Mainz am Rhein, 1994.
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1999 “Neujahr(sfest), nach akkadischen Quellen”, RLA 9/3-4 (1999), pp.294-298.
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