TY - JOUR
T1 - A Glimpse into the Šumu-libši Archive
T2 - The Sociohistorical Context of a Prebend Sale from the E-kar-zaginna of Ea in Babylon and Related Texts
AU - Gordin, Shai
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston.
PY - 2017/8/1
Y1 - 2017/8/1
N2 - CT 51, 56 (BM 34545) is a prebend sale from the E-kar-zaginna temple in Babylon within the Šumu-libši family. It is suggested here that the prebend belonged to a lamentation singer (kalû) and was inherited by his son, who sold it because he became an exorcist (mašmaššu) rather than a kalû. Some of the protagonists and witnesses in the sale belonged to the circles of well known urban families, among them the Egibis and members of the clergy. In addition to another promissory note (BM 34536), CT 51, 56 constitute a fragment of a yet unknown archive of the Šumu-libšis, a family of the minor clergy in Babylon.
AB - CT 51, 56 (BM 34545) is a prebend sale from the E-kar-zaginna temple in Babylon within the Šumu-libši family. It is suggested here that the prebend belonged to a lamentation singer (kalû) and was inherited by his son, who sold it because he became an exorcist (mašmaššu) rather than a kalû. Some of the protagonists and witnesses in the sale belonged to the circles of well known urban families, among them the Egibis and members of the clergy. In addition to another promissory note (BM 34536), CT 51, 56 constitute a fragment of a yet unknown archive of the Šumu-libšis, a family of the minor clergy in Babylon.
KW - Babylon
KW - Neo-Babylonian Period
KW - Prebends
KW - Temple of Ea
KW - Šumu-libši archive
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U2 - 10.1515/za-2017-0007
DO - 10.1515/za-2017-0007
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AN - SCOPUS:85028847841
SN - 0084-5299
VL - 107
SP - 111
EP - 124
JO - Zeitschrift fur Assyriologie und Vorderasiastische Archaeologie
JF - Zeitschrift fur Assyriologie und Vorderasiastische Archaeologie
IS - 1
ER -