The article provides an overview of the process of integration between new form of government and pre-existing networks of authority in Southern Mesopotamia at the end of the third millennium BC, focusing on the survival of specific religious and economic units. Specifically, it offers a detailed studies of the "household of the high-priestess of Bau" in the province of Lagaš and a comparison with the Pre-Sargonic antecedent of the "women household" underscoring changes and continuity in the role these institutions played in different political settings.
Noemi Borrelli (2021). Symbolic and Economic Institutions in 3rd Millennium Southern Mesopotamia: The Household of the ereš-diĝir of Bau. Munster : Zaphon.
Symbolic and Economic Institutions in 3rd Millennium Southern Mesopotamia: The Household of the ereš-diĝir of Bau
Noemi Borrelli
2021
Abstract
The article provides an overview of the process of integration between new form of government and pre-existing networks of authority in Southern Mesopotamia at the end of the third millennium BC, focusing on the survival of specific religious and economic units. Specifically, it offers a detailed studies of the "household of the high-priestess of Bau" in the province of Lagaš and a comparison with the Pre-Sargonic antecedent of the "women household" underscoring changes and continuity in the role these institutions played in different political settings.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.