The Sumerian World (Routledge Worlds)
nexus of the performed rite. The image of the Sacred Marriage links the Protoliterate vase with the palm vase libation, but it a ...
The Sumerian sacred marriage 19; Hansen 1998: 46; Suter 2000: 223). The latter, published in the same year that the Uruk Vase wa ...
When the Uruk Vase is read as a continuous narrative, the theme of seasonal contrast can also be detected in the top register. I ...
statue therefore suggests a procession headed to Nippur, a city most likely selected for the autumnal akitu-festival in the Prot ...
of beer libated at the Sacred Marriage. The preparation of large quantities of sweet beer at a festival at Mari is attested in a ...
which reference the snakes as sometimes male and sometimes female, are attested in the Neo-Sumerian era at Ur but only in texts ...
NOTE 1 Although Sargon is named the mut“husband” of Inanna in an inscription, anomalies in the Akkadian period indicate a signif ...
Collins, P. 1994. The Sumerian goddess Inanna ( 3400 – 2200 BC). Institute of Archaeology 5 : 103 – 118. Cooper, J. S. 1993. Sac ...
Lapinkivi, P. 2008. The Sumerian Sacred Marriage and Its Aftermath in Later Sources. In Sacred Marriages: The Divine-Human Sexua ...
Suter, C. E. 2010. “Ur III Kings in Images: A Reappraisal.” In Your Praise is Sweet: A Memorial Volume for Jeremy Black from Stu ...
CHAPTER TWELVE IN THE SERVICE OF THE GODS: THE MINISTERING CLERGY Joan Goodnick Westenholz THE CLERGY OF SUMER R eligious pe ...
Literary texts shed light from another angle on religious personnel. One Sumerian poem describes the fashioning of the gala(‘lam ...
instance, the rites of the birth goddess, Nintur, involved female celebrants, including the a-tu, who held the staff, the tu, wh ...
Dynastic king, Gˆisˇa-kidu of Umma, who bears the religious title enamong his other royal titles: en zà késˇ dNin-ur 4 –ke 4 ‘en ...
Table 12.2 The nomenclature of the high priesthood Deity High Archival/ Archival/ Archival/ Archival/ Lexical Lexical OB 7 Sylla ...
the priestesses serving during the Ur III period, the long cumbersome titles were dropped in favour of the short en-dNanna. The ...
–– Joan Goodnick Westenholz –– Figure 12.1Disk of Enh ̆ eduana, from Gipar at Ur (U. 6612 ) (courtesy of the Penn Museum, Univer ...
Warad-Sîn and Rı ̄m-Sîn, from 1826 BC. Installed in the eighth year of the reign of Warad-Sîn, she has left us both monumental i ...
I, Enanedu, en-priestess of the god Nanna, (predestined) from the holy womb (for) the great fate of the office of an en(and) the ...
further sacrifices of one ram each to various deities, male and female. On the next day ( 28 th) she proceeded to the èsˇ-gal-sa ...
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