RT Book
T1 The sacrificial economy: assessors, contractors, and thieves in the management of sacrificial sheep at the Eanna Temple of Uruk (ca. 625-520 B.C.)
T2 Explorations in ancient Near Eastern civilizations
JF Explorations in ancient Near Eastern civilizations
A1 Kozuh, Michael
LA English
PP Winona Lake, Indiana
PB Eisenbrauns
YR 2014
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/161156381X
AB "In the mid-first millennium B.C., the Eanna temple at Uruk sacrificed a minimum of nine lambs every day in its basic routine of offerings to its gods; in addition to these, special occasions and festivals demanded the sacrifice of as many as 90 lambs in a single day. All told, the Eanna sacrificed about 4,300 lambs per year. There were more than 120 herdsmen connected to the Eanna at any given time, and the temple expected there to be tens of thousands of sheep and goats under their responsibility. These herdsmen delivered male lambs to the Eanna for sacrifice, and the temple had an internal infrastructure for the care, maintenance, and ritual expenditure of these lambs; they also delivered wool, which the Eanna sold mostly in bulk quantities. This book aims to analyze the economic organization of this entire system of sheep and goat maintenance and utilization, to explore the economic and social relationships between the Eanna and its herdsmen, and to integrate the study of the Eanna's animal economy into the developing picture of the Neo-Babylonian temple economy as a whole"--Provided by publisher
NO DVD enth.: photos of texts published
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN DS70.5.E65
SN 9781575062785
K1 Temples : Iraq : Erech (Extinct city)
K1 Animal sacrifice : Economic aspects : Iraq : Erech (Extinct city)
K1 Animal culture : Iraq : Erech (Extinct city)
K1 Sheep : Iraq : Erech (Extinct city)
K1 Goats : Iraq : Erech (Extinct city)
K1 Herders : Iraq : Erech (Extinct city)
K1 Erech (Extinct city) : Economic conditions
K1 Erech (Extinct city) : Religious life and customs
K1 Erech (Extinct city) : Buildings, structures, etc
K1 Hochschulschrift