Cuneiform Inscriptions in the Collection of the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem: The Old Babylonian InscriptionsThis volume offers new cuneiform sources on the political, religious, juridical, and economic history of southern Babylonia in the nineteenth and early eighteenth centuries B.C.E. Among these texts is a 600-lines long document (no. 1) recording in unusual detail the daily routine followed in the temples of the city of Larsa and thus sheds light on the religious practices of the ancient Babylonians. Using this document as its point of departure, the first part of the book examines those practices - the service of the gods and the performance of the clergy. This document is especially important for the history of ancient religion. |
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B The Gods | 8 |
The Priesthood Cultic Functionaries and Temple Staff | 27 |
E Prosopography | 34 |
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a-na Akkadian anointing archive Arnaud Balamunamhe bán of bread bán of ordinary bariga barley barleycorn BLMJ bread from coarse-grained bread from finely Cereal Offering Charpin coarse-grained barley flour cult cultic deities Dilbat disbursements Dyckhoff Ebabbar eğir Enki Enlil Eridu ETCSL exemplars feast-day festival finely ground flour Frayne gín goddess gu-za-lá gudu4 gudu4-priests Hammurabi ì-ğiš i-na Inanna Isin Ištar kaš-dé-a kaš-gin king Larsa Larsa Ritual Tablet Larsa text logogram lugal Mari Mesopotamia month Nanaya Nergal ninda ninda dabin Ninegala Ninsianna Ninurta Nippur Obverse ordinary beer Panigarra references reign Renger Richter Rīm-Sîn RIME RiSi Ritual Tablet BLMJ Royal Inscription Šabātu Sallaberger 1993 Šamaš Samsu-iluna sheep as sískur-offering shekels Sigrist sìla sila of oil silver Sîn-iddinam Sippar sískur Stol Sumer Sumerian Sumuel Tablet BLMJ 3127 Teil temple Ur III Uruk wailing ceremony Warad-Sîn Westenholz zì-gu