عنوان

<The> Sacrificial Economy: On The Management Of Sacrificial Sheep And Goats At The Neo-Babylonian / Achaemenid Eanna Temple Of Uruk (C. 625-520 BC)

Number

42666

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

eng

Title Proper

First Statement of Responsibility

/ By Michael G. Kozuh

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The Division of the Humanities, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, Illinois, USA

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2006.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

‭xiv, 284p.‬

Text of Note

UMI Microform 3206329

Text of Note

Bibliography

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D

Discipline of degree

Humanities

Body granting the degree

, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, University of Chicago, Illinois, USA

Text of Note

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 study 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.

Temples -- Iraq -- Erech (Extinct city) -- Dissertations.

Animal sacrifice -- Economic aspects -- Iraq -- Erech (Extinct city)-- Dissertations.

Animal culture -- Iraq -- Erech (Extinct city) -- Dissertations.

Erech (Extinct city) -- Religious life and customs -- Dissertations.

معبدها -- عراق -- اوروک( شهر معدوم ) -- پایانامه ها

Kozuh, Michael G.

Dates

Thesis advisor

Dates

Consulting advisor

Stolper, Matthew

Roth, Martha

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