LEADER 05609oam 22006134a 450 001 9910460044803321 005 20211004152638.0 010 $a1-57506-892-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9781575068923 035 $a(CKB)3710000000248678 035 $a(EBL)3155714 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001352117 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11730227 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001352117 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11309838 035 $a(PQKB)11136618 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3155714 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3155714 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10943997 035 $a(OCoLC)891720561 035 $a(DE-B1597)584545 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781575068923 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_79482 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000248678 100 $a20210302d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Sacrificial Economy$eAssessors, Contractors, and Thieves in the Management of Sacrificial Sheep at the Eanna Temple of Uruk (ca. 625?520 B.C.) 210 1$aWinona Lake, Indiana :$cEisenbrauns,$d2014. 210 4$d©2014 215 $a1 online resource (339 p.) 225 1 $aExplorations in Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations ;$v2 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-57506-278-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $a""Contents""; ""Symbols and abbreviations for texts and translations""; ""Introduction""; ""Internal and External Livestock Management""; ""Wool or Meat? The Composition of the Eannaa???s Herds""; ""The Eannaa???s Total Sheep and Its Local Storage Capacity""; ""The Livestock Calendar""; ""Sources, Methodology, Prior Literature, and Terminology""; ""Introduction""; ""The Eanna Archive""; ""Methodology for Collecting Evidence""; ""Prior Scholarship on Livestock Management at the Eanna""; ""On Categorizing Eanna Texts: The Livestock Dossier and Its Problems""; ""Herd Assessments"" 327 $a""Assessment Texts of Single Livestock Managers""""Audits""; ""Text 1.a???NBC 4847""; ""Livestock Inventory Texts""; ""Scribal Worksheets""; ""Assessments of Multiple Individuals""; ""Tabulated Assessments of Multiple Individuals: Scribal Daybooks""; ""Other Tabulated Inspection Texts of Multiple Herdsmen""; ""Non-Tabulated Assessments of Herdsmen""; ""The Herdsmen and Their Formal Relationship with the Eanna""; ""The Herdsmen""; ""The Contract""; ""The Audit Texts""; ""Balances""; ""rA??hu""; ""Fluctuating Balances""; ""Increasing Balances""; ""Text 10""; ""Decreasing Balances"" 327 $a""Commutation of Balances""""People for Balances""; ""Text 11""; ""Text 12""; ""Houses and Land for Balances""; ""Other Animals for Balances""; ""Silver for Balances""; ""Text 13""; ""Commutations: An Assessment""; ""Balances: An Assessment""; ""Balances, Incentives, and Restrictions""; ""Balances and Wool""; ""Standards and Practice""; ""The Eanna and Its Herdsmen""; ""Branding""; ""The Interests of the Herdsmen""; ""Restrictions on the Herdsmen""; ""Text 14""; ""Managing the Herdsmen""; ""The Herd Supervisors (rab bA?«lis)""; ""The A?¡a muhhi rA??hA??ni""; ""Gimillu: An Assessment"" 327 $a""Addendum: The Punishment of the King""""Entreprenurial Debt and Systemic Stress""; ""Debt""; ""Contractual Stipulations and Debt""; ""Risk""; ""Stress""; ""Text 15""; ""Conclusion""; ""The Internal Livestock Management of the Eanna of Uruk""; ""Introduction""; ""The Offering Shepherd""; ""The Fattening Stable (bA?«t urA?®)""; ""Text 16""; ""The Eannaa???s Central Administration""; ""Text 17""; ""Institutional Income and Internal Allocations""; ""Text 18""; ""Institutional Income""; ""The Internal Allocations to the Offering Shepherd"" 327 $a""Text 31"" 330 $aIn the mid-first millennium B.C., the Eanna temple at Uruk sacrificed a minimum of nine lambs every day in its basic routine of offerings to its gods; in addition to these, special occasions and festivals demanded the sacrifice of as many as 90 lambs in a single day. All told, the Eanna sacrificed about 4,300 lambs per year. There were more than 120 herdsmen connected to the Eanna at any given time, and the temple expected there to be tens of thousands of sheep and goats under their responsibility. These herdsmen delivered male lambs to the Eanna for sacrifice, and the temple had an internal infrastructure for the care, maintenance, and ritual expenditure of these lambs; they also delivered wool, which the Eanna sold mostly in bulk quantities. This book aims to analyze the economic organization of this entire system of sheep and goat maintenance and utilization, to explore the economic and social relationships between the Eanna and its herdsmen, and to integrate the study of the Eanna?s animal economy into the developing picture of the Neo-Babylonian temple economy as a whole. Kozuh?s careful examination of the bookkeeping records, the management records, and legal documents connected with this substantial enterprise sheds new light on an arcane area of first-millennium Mesopotamian life that will be sure to enlighten our understanding of the daily life, economy, and social structure of this region. 410 0$aExplorations in ancient Near Eastern civilizations ;$v2. 608 $aElectronic books. 676 $a935/.5 700 $aKozuh$b Michael$01040066 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460044803321 996 $aThe sacrificial economy$92462672 997 $aUNINA