THE EZIDA TEMPLE OF BORSIPPA : PRIESTHOOD, CULT, ARCHIVES PDF, EPUB, EBOOK C. Waerzeggers | 803 pages | 31 Dec 2010 | Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (NINO) | 9789062584154 | English | Leuven, Netherlands The Ezida Temple of Borsippa : Priesthood, Cult, Archives PDF Book Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line callParserFunction: function " coordinates" was not found. On average, one year in three counted 13 months instead of 12, but we never hear of priests holding prebends for intercalated days. He also constructed two walls on the side of Nemitti- Bel, four hundred and ninety cubits long. On no other sites, except in thy city Babylon, have I built. Keywords: priests ; Babylonia ; 1st millennium BC ; religion ; garments ; identity ; rituals. Linssen , M. You could not be signed in, please check and try again. It allows us to observe the rota in its pure form, before sale, exchange and inheritance had affected it. To make squares disappear and save space for other squares you have to assemble English words left, right, up, down from the falling squares. An inscription of Nebuchadrezzar II , the "Borsippa inscription," tells how he restored the temple of Nabu, "the temple of the seven spheres," with "bricks of noble lapis lazuli. Open Access for Authors. Part of such a refocusing of concerns, may well have been the desire of the regime to regularise local institutions and make them more effective, as part of which harnessing the potential wealth of the large Babylonian temples will have been central. His birth is ascribed to Marduk. Catalogs, Flyers and Price Lists. In the tenth month of the ninth year of Zedekiah, Jerusalem was besieged. Latest Key Figures. She is also a special advisor of the Defence Command Denmark. Prentice , Rosemary. Much of her research concerns the cuneiform texts of the second millennium bc , especially from Nuzi; she has published, with Diana Stein, a monograph on a family archive from this site The Pula-Hali Family Archives , and her work on Nuzi continues. Biblical Studies. BM , AchHist 15 no. In addition, in order that the enemy might not storm Imgur-Bel, he built at a dis- tance of four thousand cubits a heavy wall on the east of Baby- lon, and provided it with moats. Her main field of research is the scholarly tradition of the first millennium bc , with a special focus on the medical knowledge of ancient Mesopotamia; she is currently working on medicinal plants. His principal research interests are Sumerian language and literature and the emergence of the scholarly tradition. The Ezida Temple of Borsippa : Priesthood, Cult, Archives Writer Judah became a tributary state, and Nebuchad- nezzar placed Mattaniah, whose name was changed to Zedekiah, upon the throne as vassal prince. This brown pebble was found among burnt debris in corridor NT3 opposite the entrance to Nabu's sanctuary. Lambert , W. Dufour , and F. Only the most important of the buildings and restorations of Nebuchadnezzar will be noticed. It is now impossible to determine what his temple might have looked like at this time, as only traces of it survived later building work. AfO Beih. Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line callParserFunction: function " coordinates" was not found. May my followers rule the world therein forever. Don't have an account? Definitions of prebends usually include time as an essential element of the system. Baghdader Mitteilungen BaM. How to Manage your Online Holdings. Specialty Products. From the 9th century BCE, Borsippa was on the borderland south of which lay the tribal "houses" of Chaldea. When Assurnasirpal II started on the renovation of Kalhu's citadel, Nabu's temple was one of the last buildings to be constructed—and not in the palace quarter b ut several hundred metres to the southeast. Offerings made to the divine couple during this time were designed to prolong the life of the king and all of his descendants 7. Yet even then, royal scholarship was not confined to Nineveh. Such appointments were perhaps to a certain extent honorary. By Malgorzata Sandowicz. Commitment to cultic service had a profound impact on the lifestyle of Babylonian priests as they were subject to purity laws for much of the year and could not leave their cities for long periods of time. Currently he is investigating attitudes towards, and uses of, the past in the ancient Near East itself. Edited by Hermann Behrens et al. Sign in with your library card Please enter your library card number. An inscribed foundation stone has been recovered, which details Nebuchadnezzar's plan to have the Borsippa ziggurat built on the same design as that at Babylon, of which only the foundation survives. Keywords: priests ; Babylonia ; 1st millennium BC ; religion ; garments ; identity ; rituals. This tablet will be published by Kathleen Abraham in her forthcoming study of the Atkuppu archive. Excavations can currently not be carried out due to political events. Mann, Berlin, vol. CT 22, , cited by Bongenaar, Ebabbar , 21— a herdsman of the regular offerings asks the temple administrator of Sippar whether the present day is the first day of the new month, or the 30th day of last month. To my knowledge such creation stories are absent from Babylonian literature, except perhaps in the Epic of Creation see below. His present interests include the administration of the Assyrian state in the Late Bronze Age, religious iconography, and first-millennium library texts, subjects on which he has been publishing all his life. Evidence for day service periods in Borsippa is scarce BM 6—7 ta ud. Parker, B. Most English definitions are provided by WordNet. Save Cite Email this content. The authors of these texts were primarily interested in the ideal of the rota—in the system as it was intended to work, harmoniously and unaffected by the passage of time. Her main research interests belong to legal documentation from Mesopotamia and the comparison between this and biblical sources. In Hophra came to the throne of Egypt, and in the following year Zedekiah made an alliance with him against Nebuchadnezzar. Ancient Near East and Egypt. Menant , J. AOAT Ordering From Brill. Zedekiah fled by night, but was pursued by the Baby- lonians, captured near Jericho, and brought to Riblah. HEO The Ezida Temple of Borsippa : Priesthood, Cult, Archives Reviews The following short note from Neo-Babylonian Borsippa which lists rations for only the 30th days of certain months may have its background in such a system, though we cannot be certain of the prebendary nature of the rations:. These texts reveal that mid- and lower-level Babylonian priesthoods operated as rotational offices Wechselamt with short cycles of service, requiring their members to return for brief periods of duty at regular intervals throughout the year. This is based on the following text:. Jehoia- kim, who had paid tribute for three years, revolted, but Jerusalem was not captured until after his death, in the third month of the reign of Jehoiakin, his son B. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors see full disclaimer Donate to Wikimedia. Guide him on the right path. Off the temple's first courtyard, which was surrounded by primarily utilitarian offices, are two further courts. Online User and Order Help. Review a Brill Book. Expressed in calendar days, however, his share was much larger: it comprised 42 days. Heidelberg : Heidelberger Orientverlag. The atammu p. He is particularly interested in Sumerian economy and in Mesopotamian mathematics. Ordering from Brill. Yet another division scheme was used by the temple fishers of Eanna in Uruk. Author Newsletter. Her current research focuses on the archives from the time of Samsi-Addu and on the historical geography of northern Mesopotamia with Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, she has recently published an edited volume, Entre les fleuves: Untersuchungen zur historischen Geographie Obermesopotamiens im 2. In Borsippa, the entire oxherd prebend was the property of a single clan, and each of the three watches of the trimestral rota was associated with a particular branch of the clan. Her recent research examines the conceptualization of citizenship and the constitution of publics in ancient Near Eastern polities, written records as artefacts of cultural practice and temporal process, and the nature of writing as an interface between reader and reality. Privacy Statement. Need an account? When looking at the Babylonian evidence, one could become dazzled by the sometimes tiny fractions of temple service. BM , edited by Bongenaar, is the most informative of these two texts. Webmaster Solution Alexandria A windows pop-into of information full-content of Sensagent triggered by double-clicking any word on your webpage. Open Access and Research Funding. Volume 2: Texts. In return, they had access to emoluments 'shares' , which constituted an income dubbed by Assyriologists, in imitation of the much later system in the Christian hierarchy of Western Europe, 'prebends'. In fine, on every act he invoked the blessing of the gods. Another shortcoming of the normative calendar of days is that it does not take intercalary months into account. Arm of a throne once belonging to king Esarhaddon, found in Nabu's temple. Neither riches nor power con- stitute his ambition, but to have the fear of his lord in his heart. His principal research interests are Sumerian language and literature and the emergence of the scholarly tradition. When Assurnasirpal II started on the renovation of Kalhu's citadel, Nabu's temple was one of the last buildings to be constructed—and not in the palace quarter b ut several hundred metres to the southeast. Sallaberger , Walther , and Fabienne Huber Vulliet. But there are also differences. Part of such a refocusing of concerns, may well have been the desire of the regime to regularise local institutions and make them more effective, as part of which harnessing the potential wealth of the large Babylonian temples will have been central.