The sacrificial economy : assessors, contractors, and thieves in the management of sacrificial sheep at the Eanna Temple of Uruk (ca. 625-520 B.C.)

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The sacrificial economy : assessors, contractors, and thieves in the management of sacrificial sheep at the Eanna Temple of Uruk (ca. 625-520 B.C.)

Title remainder

assessors, contractors, and thieves in the management of sacrificial sheep at the Eanna Temple of Uruk (ca. 625-520 B.C.)

Statement of responsibility

by Michael Kozuh

Creator

• Kozuh, Michael

Subject

• Animal culture
• Animal culture -- Iraq | Erech (Extinct city)
• Animal sacrifice -- Economic aspects -- Iraq | Erech (Extinct city)
• Buildings
• Economic history
• Electronic books
• Electronic books
• Erech (Extinct city) -- Buildings, structures, etc
• Erech (Extinct city) -- Economic conditions
• Erech (Extinct city) -- Religious life and customs
• Goats
• Goats -- Iraq | Erech (Extinct city)
• HISTORY -- Civilization
• Herders
• Herders -- Iraq | Erech (Extinct city)
• Iraq -- Erech (Extinct city)
• Sheep
• Sheep -- Iraq | Erech (Extinct city)
• Temples
• Temples -- Iraq | Erech (Extinct city)

Language

eng

Summary

"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

Member of

• Explorations in ancient Near Eastern civilizations, 2
• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

935/.5

Index

index present

Language note

English

LC call number

DS70.5.E65

LC item number

K69 2014eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Explorations in ancient Near Eastern civilizations

Series volume

2