バビロニアの神殿における衣装献納式について

Abstract

So far I raised discussions on the lubuštu-ceremony in the later periods of Babylonia, especially in Sippar and in Uruk, by the use of some neo-babylonian texts, including BBS 36. According to them, we know that, at the occasion of the restoraton of the image of Šamaš in the Ebabbar Temple at Sippar, in the 9th century B. C., the king of Babylon decided the days of the regular offering of clothing, namely those of the annual lubuštu-ceremony to the gods of Ebabbar, at Nisannu 7, Ajjaru 10, Ululu 3, Tašritu 7, Arahsamna 15, Addaru 15. The cultic calendar for the dates of this ceremony at the Ebabbar in fact remained intact through the 7th and 6th centuries, and even at the beginning of the 5th century B. C., under the kings of Chaldean and Achaemenid dynasties. We also have some materials on the same ceremony in Uruk, even though the dates are not the same as those of Sippar.Among some materials which I have recently collected out of neo-assyrian letters, I found words or reports concerning the lubuštu-ceremony. In this paper I am going firstly to list up these materials, that is to say, ABL 496, ABL 338, CT 53, 116, ABL 956, with selected part of the text, then I will try to visualize the lubuštu-ceremony in Babylonia under the reign of neo-assyrian emperors. I believe that in some temples in Babylonia, at least in the Esagil of Babylon, the lubuštu-ceremony took place, as in the Ebabar, in spring and in autumn. We can observe some common aspects in the relationship between the lubuštu-ceremony and the famous akitu-festival, but the relationship between these two rituals should be left over as one of the themes of future research. We now know that the clothing ceremony lubuštu was one of the important rituals in several temples in Babylonia, and that this tradition remained intact at least since 9th century to the beginning of the 5th century.