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An ox of one's own : royal wives and religion at the court of the third dynasty of Ur / T. M. Sharlach.
- Title
- An ox of one's own : royal wives and religion at the court of the third dynasty of Ur / T. M. Sharlach.
- Author
- Sharlach, T. M.
- Publication
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2017]
- ©2017
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- Description
- x, 336 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This work explores the evidence pertaining to the roles played by royal wives at the court of the Third Dynasty of Ur. A contextualized approach to the data is here combined with a study of the archive and the cultic activities of Shulgi-simti, a wife of king Shulgi. Shulgi-simti, who died ca. 2050 B.C.E., managed what nowadays would be called a "religious foundation." This examination of the agency Shulgi-simti exerted in various realms of life sheds new light on the status of royal women in Ancient Mesopotamia. Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER) is a peer-reviewed series devoted to the publication of monographs pertaining to all aspects of the history, culture, literature, religion, art, and archaeology of the Ancient Near East, from the earliest historical periods to Late Antiquity. The aim of this series is to present in-depth studies of the written and material records left by the civilizations and cultures that populated the various areas of the Ancient Near East: Anatolia, Arabia, Egypt, Iran, the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Syria. Thus, SANER is open to all sorts of works that have something new to contribute and which are relevant to scholars and students within the continuum of regions, disciplines, and periods that constitute the field of Ancient Near Eastern studies, as well as to those in neighboring disciplines, including Biblical Studies, Classics, and Ancient History in general. Book jacket.
- Series Statement
- Studies in ancient Near Eastern records, 2161-4415 ; volume 18
- Uniform Title
- Studies in ancient Near Eastern records v. 18.
- Alternative Title
- Royal wives and religion at the court of the third dynasty of Ur
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-321) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I: Historical Introduction: Shulgi, King of Ur and His Wives; Chapter 1. Historical Introduction: The Reigns of Ur-Namma and Shulgi of Ur; Chapter 2. Centers of Power, the Palaces and the Court; Chapter 3. Queens and Concubines; Chapter 4. Was There a Harem in Early Mesopotamia?; Chapter 5. Lives of the Wives: Nin-kalla and Shulgi-simti; Chapter 6. The Lives of Shulgi's Wives: Ea-niša, Geme-Ninlilla and More; Chapter 7. The Death of Shulgi and his Wives; Part II: The Shulgi-simti Archive and the Shulgi-simti Foundation
- Chapter 8. The Shulgi-simti ArchiveChapter 9. An Ox of One's Own: Provisioners and Influence; Chapter 10. Sacrifice: An Overview of the Cultic Events to which the Shulgi-simti Foundation Contributed; Chapter 11. Belet-šuhnir and Belet-terraban and Religious Activities of the Queen and the Concubine(s); Part III: A Wider Lens; Chapter 12. A Wider Context: Temple Households and Changes in the Roles Played by Royal Wives in Early Mesopotamia; Chapter 13. Conclusions; Bibliography, An Ox of One's Own; Tablets from the Yale Babylonian Collection; Index
- ISBN
- 9781501514470
- 9781501505225 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781501505263 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 971341847
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library