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Papanikri

Papanikri is the named ritual specialist associated with a Hittite ritual addressing the omen of a damaged birth stool

Part of the Great Temple ruins at Hattusha, the Hittite capital, near modern Boğazköy in Turkey. UNESCO dates the temple remains to the thirteenth century BCE. Photograph taken on 17 March 2013, providing context for the city that preserved collections of Hittite rituals
Part of the Great Temple ruins at Hattusha, the Hittite capital, near modern Boğazköy in Turkey. UNESCO dates the temple remains to the thirteenth century BCE. Photograph taken on 17 March 2013, providing context for the city that preserved collections of Hittite ritualsMurat Özsoy 1958 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · CC BY-SALicense · Related reference · Image source

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Papanikri is the named ritualRitualAn organised or distinguished practice meaningful to a community; it may leave traces, but its form alone does not reveal an associated doctrine.Glossary · Click to read the explanation specialist associated with a Hittite ritual addressing the omen of a damaged birth stool. [1]

Yitzhaq FederYitzhaq FederScholar of purity, expiation and ritual in the Hebrew Bible and its ancient setting, including Hittite comparisons.Glossary · Click to read the explanation studies this text, CTH 476, within second-millennium BCE ritual traditions. The attribution identifies his role; it does not provide an independent biography or precise life dates.

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  1. Yitzhaq Feder, Blood Expiation in Hittite and Biblical Ritual (2011). pp. 115–127 on the Hittite text; pp. 7–13, 261–262 for discussion Return to the text ↑

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  1. Edition 2 · 13 October 2026 · editor:aladmin

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