An Ox of One's Own : : Royal Wives and Religion at the Court of the Third Dynasty of Ur / / T. M. Sharlach.

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• VerfasserIn: Sharlach, T. M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER) , 18
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XII, 336 p.)

Shulgi-simti is an important example of a woman involved in sponsoring religious activities though having a family life. An Ox of One’s Own will be of interest to Assyriologists, particularly those interested in Early Mesopotamia, and scholars working on women in religion. An Ox of One’s Own centers...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Part I: Historical Introduction: Shulgi, King of Ur and His Wives
• Chapter 1. Historical Introduction: The Reigns of Ur-Namma and Shulgi of Ur
• Chapter 2. Centers of Power, the Palaces and the Court
• Chapter 3. Queens and Concubines
• Chapter 4. Was There a Harem in Early Mesopotamia?
• Chapter 5. Lives of the Wives: Nin-kalla and Shulgi-simti
• Chapter 6. The Lives of Shulgi’s Wives: Ea-niša, Geme-Ninlilla and More
• Chapter 7. The Death of Shulgi and his Wives
• Part II: The Shulgi-simti Archive and the Shulgi-simti Foundation
• Chapter 8. The Shulgi-simti Archive
• Chapter 9. An Ox of One’s Own: Provisioners and Influence
• Chapter 10. Sacrifice: An Overview of the Cultic Events to which the Shulgi-simti Foundation Contributed
• Chapter 11. Belet-šuhnir and Belet-terraban and Religious Activities of the Queen and the Concubine(s)
• Part III: A Wider Lens
• Chapter 12. A Wider Context: Temple Households and Changes in the Roles Played by Royal Wives in Early Mesopotamia
• Chapter 13. Conclusions
• Bibliography, An Ox of One’s Own
• Tablets from the Yale Babylonian Collection
• Index