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Sunday, October 18th, 2015
In this period there seems to have been increasing disillusionment with operation of a system in which the institutions of the temple were held to be mainly responsible for ensuring economic security for the citizens. The cause of this is likely to have been the increasing influence of individual interests, ...
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Saturday, October 3rd, 2015
Ur-Nammu appointed his son to be high priest of Inanna at Uruk, and his daughter to be high priestess of Nanna at Ur.[1] This custom was begun by the Akkadians and was doubtless intended to facilitate the control of the resources of the temple estates by the secular power, as ...
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Sunday, September 27th, 2015
Tendencies in the changing economy which had been noted in the Neo-Sumerian period strengthened in the Isin-Larsa and Old Babylonian periods. Much of the information for this period comes from the very large number of ‘Old Babylonian Contracts’ that have been recovered. This is particularly the case for the private ...
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Saturday, September 19th, 2015
The influx of Semitic elements, of which the Amorites were the latest, led to alterations in the political forms of Sumer.
Tribal Authority
Whereas there is no trace of residual tribal structure in Sumero-Akkadian society of the third millennium BC, the Amorites, as relative newcomers to the Land and arriving in such ...
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Sunday, September 13th, 2015
The principal cause of the ‘End of Sumer’ was the influx of new people. It has already been noted that there had always been, so far as we can tell, a mixture of populations in the Land. Besides the ethnic Sumerians (the original speakers of Sumerian) themselves, there is strong ...
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2015
The People (sag-giga)
The principal identity of the people seems to have been with the city itself. One sign of this is the tendency to take names incorporating the name of the city.[1] There is no evidence that alternative identities actually opposed to the city played any significant role in Sumerian ...
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2015
In this period there seems to have been increasing disillusionment with operation of a system in which the institutions of the temple were held to be mainly responsible for ensuring economic security for the citizens. The cause of this is likely to have been the increasing influence of individual interests, ...
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Sunday, February 22nd, 2015
The structure of the administration of Ur III and some of its administrative initiatives also played a role in avoiding internal rebellions. Many of these features of Ur III were foreshadowed in the structure and administration of the Akkadian empire, but appear to have been much more thorough and perhaps ...
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Thursday, January 15th, 2015
Architecture
Ur-Nammu’s determination to display his piety and to repair the damage done by the Guti (or by neglect in the interregnum) showed itself in reconstruction efforts all over Sumer in the name of his god ad of the local gods of the cities. Most elements of the architecture, such as ...
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Friday, December 26th, 2014
Retention of bindu
In its earliest formulations, hatHa was used to raise and conserve the physical essence of life, identified in men as bindu (semen), which is otherwise constantly dripping downward from a store in the head and being expended. (The female equivalent, mentioned only occasionally in our sources, is rajas, ...
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