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The Priesthood of Uruk in Late First Millennium BCE Babylonia
The Priesthood of Uruk in Late First Millennium BCE Babylonia
YBC 16216
Sealed house sale - the Eanna temple purchases two built houses from the Šigûa family
© 2017, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven
Our research project revolves around the southern Mesopotamian urban
centre of Uruk (Biblical Erech, modern Warka). It is known as one of the
earliest cities in history, also believed in ancient mythology to have
been ruled over by the legendary hero Gilgameš. In the ‘long sixth
century’ (ca. 620 - 484 BCE) between the ascent of the Neo-Babylonian
kingdom after the fall of Assyria and a major disruption of social and
economic life in Babylonia after the Babylonian rebellion against the
Persian king Xerxes, this city and its main temple the Eanna, sanctuary
of the goddess Ištar, were key players in the regional and
inter-regional network of people and goods that flowed south from
Babylon along the Euphrates. The project aims to reconstruct an
important facet of the religious and social landscape of Babylonia
through a study of the Urukean clergy as attested in the Eanna archive
and in the private archives from Uruk...
Click here for the current selection of texts from Uruk in the NaBuCCo catalogue
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