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their obligations towards the overlord are fulfilled.^97 The linkage of such communities into higher groupings and the build-up ...

the time of Enentarzi, while large temple projects initiated earlier by Eannatum func- tioned perfectly well without a single wo ...

NOTES 1 Cooper 1986 , 63 – 64 , No. La 5. 17 , col. v on p. 63. 2 Chiodi 1997 , 82 n. 138 ; Chiodi 1997 , II, 168 – 170. 3 Barna ...

47 E.g. Lippussˇ-ia’um, granddaughter of Naramsin: Parrot 1948 , 134 , fig. 32 : g, cf. also Westenholz 1999 , 72 n. 344 , and p ...

97 On them cf. now Visicato 1995 , 17 , 25 – 26 ; Martin et al. 2001 , 121 n. 40. 98 1999, 156 – 159 with ref. 99 Cf. above, cor ...

Graziani, Simonetta (ed.) 2000 Studi sul Vicino Oriente Antico dedicati alla memoria di Luigi Cagni I–IV, Naples: Istituto Unive ...

Rehm, Ellen 2003 Waffengräber im Alten Orient – Zum Problem der Wertung von Waffen in Gräbern des 3. und frühen 2. Jahrtausend v ...

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN THE PALACE AND THE TEMPLE IN BABYLONIA  Walther Sallaberger T wo institutions dominated Babylonia, the palac ...

— Walther Sallaberger — Figure 18. 1 Reconstructed map of Babylon in the first millennium. ...

— Palace and temple in Babylonia — Figure 18. 2 Model of the Marduk sanctuaries in Babylon (above); the Processional Way and the ...

Babylon. A temple was bound to its traditional place and it was mandatory to keep the right spot of the cella at every rebuildin ...

and who were entitled to use the left-overs of the divine meal. Such prebends, income from the daily services, could be inherite ...

(Maul 2003 and this volume). In this technique of future-telling, the formation and wrinkles of the fresh liver were regarded as ...

obliged, in exchange, to perform corvée work. The palace collected taxes from various brands. In the Old Babylonian period, vari ...

of goods take place on such a scale that it was regularly documented in administrative texts. And, here, only the palace was abl ...

by the constant exchange of gifts. So the given away riches prove to be clever investments in the political future of the own st ...

the best works of art or to assemble collections of rare plants and animals there. Interestingly, the building of a palace is ha ...

BIBLIOGRAPHY Allinger-Csollich, W. 1998 : ‘Birs Nimrud II. “Tieftempel” – “Hochtempel”. Vergleichende Studien Borsippa – Babylon ...

CHAPTER NINETEEN POWER, ECONOMY AND SOCIAL ORGANISATION IN BABYLONIA  Gebhard J. Selz POWER AND IDEOLOGY P ower derives from ...

administration but had strong roots in a centuries old tradition, and were normally just modified and adapted to the needs of th ...