Description
This book is concerning the pantheon of the Babylonian city of Uruk, between the 9th and 5th centuries BC. This is a careful analysis of the archive of the Eanna temple in Uruk, the sanctuary of the goddess Ishtar, containing well over 8,000 cuneiform tablets within the Akkadian language. The tablets date of their majority to the Neo-Babylonian and early Achaemenid period. Paul-Alain Beaulieu sheds light at the hierarchy of the local pantheon, providing a wealth of data in regards to the cult of every deity, such as identity and theology, ornaments and clothing of the divine image, offerings ceremonies, temples, and cultic body of workers. Crucial contribution to our knowledge of the functioning of faith in Neo-Babylonian society.