The Sumerian World (Routledge Worlds)
–– Joan Goodnick Westenholz –– Figure 12.4Cylinder seal from Ur, grave PG/ 35 (U. 7956 ), Post-Akkadian/Ur III, Philadelphia CBS ...
deities and the king, provisioning the cult, and accompanying the divine images in procession. The daily, monthly, and annual du ...
4 : 33 – 38 ). The agrun(É.NUN) ‘bedchamber’ of Ningal was found in the archaeological excavations of the Ningal Temple: C ...
substantiation was done by means of a rite termed ka-luh ̆ -ù-da‘the washing of the mouth (of the statue)’ followed by the ka-du ...
However, the role and status of the eres ˇ-digˆir-priestess is uncertain. Steinkeller proposed that, in the pre-Sargonic period ...
priestess is not led by Lama but is privileged to stand between the two goddesses and face BaU directly. Followed by an interces ...
Egi-zi One poorly known cultic figure is that of the female egi/égi-zi(-an-na) (‘faithful/true princess (of the heavens)’).^27 D ...
of maintaining the purity and holiness of the statues, the holy objects and the sacrosanct areas of the temples were the gudu 4 ...
134 ); it became in time the traditional mark of his office in the third millennium. Regarding adornment, there is an enigmatic ...
singing, and the gala, the so-called ‘lamentation priest’ who was responsible for the major ritual compositions that were sung d ...
funerals, then it explains why the dialect of lamentation is a dialect otherwise associated with women and the ambiguity of the ...
Selection process The highest officials in the temple hierarchy (en, lagar, lú-mah ̆ , eresˇ-digˆir, isˇib, egi-zi) were said to ...
CELIBACY Men and women in divine service had different duties and obligations: Some may marry; others must not. Some were cloist ...
away the ghosts, and drink water for you, to keep away the ghosts. Your holy dais is set up beside them. (Hymn to Inana as Nineg ...
extremely similar and indeed Steinkeller ( 1999 : 121 note 61 ) relates the two titles and posits that the latter was the primar ...
demonstrate that at least one male priest functioned as the consort of a goddess (Steinkeller 1999 : 120 ) but not that the male ...
Fischer, C. ( 1997 ) Siegelabrollungen im British Museum auf Ur-III-zeitlichen Texten aus der Provinz Lagasˇ. Baghdader Mitteilu ...
Sallaberger, W. and Huber Vulliet, F. ( 2003 – 2005 ) Priester, A. I. Mesopotamien. Reallexikon der Assyriologie und vorderasiat ...
[Occasional Publications of the Samuel Noah Kramer Fund, 11 ]. Philadelphia: University Museum, 539 – 556. —— ( 1992 ) The Clerg ...
PART III SYSTEMS OF GOVERNMENT ...
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