The Pantheon of Uruk During the Neo-Babylonian PeriodThis book is about the pantheon of the Babylonian city of Uruk, between the 9th and 5th centuries BC. It is a careful analysis of the archive of the Eanna temple in Uruk, the sanctuary of the goddess Ishtar, containing well over 8,000 cuneiform tablets in the Akkadian language. The tablets date in their majority to the Neo-Babylonian and early Achaemenid period. Paul-Alain Beaulieu sheds light on the hierarchy of the local pantheon, providing a wealth of data concerning the cult of each deity, such as identity and theology, ornaments and clothing of the divine image, offerings ceremonies, temples, and cultic personnel. An important contribution to our knowledge of the functioning of religion in Neo-Babylonian society. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Offering Lists | 41 |
IštarofUruk | 103 |
The Companions of Ištar | 179 |
Other Deities of Group A | 267 |
Minor Goddesses | 309 |
Minor Gods | 325 |
NonAnthropomorphic Deities | 351 |
Synthetic List of Gods Mentioned in the Eanna Archive | 369 |
Philological Discussions | 379 |
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Common terms and phrases
A-šú šá Amurru AUWE Babylon BÁN beads BEAULIEU belonging Bēltu-ša-Rēš Borsippa breast ornament clothing ceremony cult cultic deities dGAŠAN šá UNUGki dgu-la dIGI.DU Divine Urdimmus Dumuzi dÙRI-INIM-su É.AN.NA Eanna archive Eanna temple Enlil GCCI GÍN ginû goddess gods Gula Inanna Innin inscription Ištar Ištar and Nanaya Ištar-of-Uruk jewelry king KÙ.BABBAR KÙ.GI kudurru kurrus kusītu garment Lady-of-Uruk Larsa logogram lubāru lubuštu ceremony LUGAL Lugalbanda MA.NA Marduk MAŠ mašīḥus maššartu mentioned minas month Addaru Nabonidus Nabû Nanaya NCBT Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar II necklace Neo-Babylonian Nergal Ninurta Nusku o o o offering lists Old Babylonian pānus prebend qûs red-colored wool ritual šá dGAŠAN šá šá ITI sacred meal Šamaš sanctuary sâtus sheep shekels shekels of gold SÌLA Sîn Sippar SWU texts temple of Marduk temple of Ninurta texts record Udannu Urkayītu Uruk Uṣur-amāssu woven cloth ZÚ.LUM.MA
References to this book
From the Banks of the Euphrates: Studies in Honor of Alice Louise Slotsky Micah Ross Limited preview - 2008 |