Die rol van die tempel binne die Mesopotamiese gemeenskap
This article outlines the broad spectrum of the temple's activities in Mesopotamia in order to ascertain to what extent the temple was involved in the secular society. The various activities in which the temple (as a whole and the separate temples in particular) was involved mirror the widespre...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Afrikaans |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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1994
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Journal for semitics
Year: 1994, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 15-33 |
| Further subjects: | B
Cultic functions
B Secular Society B Mesopotamia B Temple's activities B Judicial centre B Economical and social functions B Mesopotamian society |
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| Summary: | This article outlines the broad spectrum of the temple's activities in Mesopotamia in order to ascertain to what extent the temple was involved in the secular society. The various activities in which the temple (as a whole and the separate temples in particular) was involved mirror the widespread role of the temple in Mesopotamian society. Besides its obvious cultic functions, the temple also performed economical and social functions of a permanent kind, while serving as a judicial centre probably on an ad hoc basis. Administrative material mainly from the Ur III and Old Babylonian periods is used to substantiate the arguments. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for semitics
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| Persistent identifiers: | HDL: 10520/AJA10318471_283 |
