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Author: Benedikt Eckhardt

CAPInv. 1775: šr[k]t

I. LOCATION

i. Geographical area The Near East and Beyond
ii. Region Mesopotamia
iii. Site Assur

II. NAME

i. Full name (original language) šr[k]t (Milik 1972: 338-339)
ii. Full name (transliterated) šr[k]t

III. DATE

i. Date(s) 100 (?) BC - 300 (?) AD

IV. NAME AND TERMINOLOGY

iii. Descriptive terms šrkt (?)
Note Milik 1972: 339 reconstructs the term on the basis of a translation in ed. pr.; no photo or complete original text has been published

V. SOURCES

i. Source(s) Milik 1972: 338-339
i.a. Source type(s) Epigraphic source(s)
i.b. Document(s) typology & language/script Commemorative inscription, in Aramaic
i.c. Physical format(s) "Plaque de calcaire tendre" (Milik 1972: 338)
ii. Source(s) provenance Temple of Assur

VII. ORGANIZATION

iv. Officials šdn' dy šr[k]t, "surveillant du thiase" (Milik 1972: 339). The term is reconstructed from the hints in ed. pr.

X. ACTIVITIES

iii. Worship On the basis of the commemorative inscription, worship by the group can e supposed.
Deities worshipped Isharbel

XII. NOTES

iii. Bibliography Milik, J. T. (1972), Dédicaces faites par des dieux (Palmyre, Hatra, Tyr) et des thiases sémitiques à l'époque romaine, Paris.
O'Connor, M. P. (1986), 'Northwest Semitic Designations for Elective Social Affinities', Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society 18, 67-80.

XIII. EVALUATION

i. Private association Possible
Note The interpretation of the text largely depends on Milik's reconstruction of the original wording as well as his interpretation of šr[k]t as the designation for an association (accepted by O'Connor 1986: 72).