High Priest, and the
King<ref>The Babylonian Akitu Festival by Svend Aage Pallis Review by: S. S.The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland , No. 4 (Oct., 1927) , pp. 895-897</ref>
==Assyria==
The festival was also adopted in [[Neo-Assyrian Empire|Iron Age Assyria]], following the destruction of Babylon.
King [[Sennacherib]] in 683 BC built an "Akitu house" outside the walls of [[Assur]]. Another "Akitu house" was built outside [[Nineveh]].<ref>Ali Yaseen Ahmad and A. Kirk Grayson, ''Sennacherib in the Akitu House'', Iraq, Vol. 61, (1999), pp. 187-189; Simo Parpola, Neo-Assyrian Treaties from the Royal Archives of Nineveh, Journal of Cuneiform Studies, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Autumn, 1987), pp. 161-189</ref>
==Comparative Mythology==
