On the Cultic Aspect of the “Reforms of Urukagina”: Changes in the Festival of the Goddess Baba

This paper, focusing on religious aspects rather than socio-economic ones, will argue that Urukagina put a reform policy into effect in the cultic sphere as a kind of manifestation of the reform. Some changes that occurred in the giš-tag offering lists of the Festival of the Goddess Baba between the...

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Main Author: Karahashi, Fumi (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Soc. 2020
In: Orient
Year: 2020, Volume: 55, Pages: 63-70
Further subjects:B Lagash
B Urukagina
B offerings
B ancestor cult
B the goddess Baba
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Summary:This paper, focusing on religious aspects rather than socio-economic ones, will argue that Urukagina put a reform policy into effect in the cultic sphere as a kind of manifestation of the reform. Some changes that occurred in the giš-tag offering lists of the Festival of the Goddess Baba between the reigns of Lugalanda and Urukagina seem to support this view.
ISSN:1884-1392
Contains:Enthalten in: Orient
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.5356/orient.55.63