The Economics of Ritual at Late Old Babylonian Kish

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By this author: Yoffee, Norman

Author: Yoffee, Norman

Source: Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Volume 41, Number 3, 1998 , pp. 312-343(32)

Publisher: BRILL

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Abstract:

A small archive of economic documents from the city of Kish in the late Old Babylonian period records amounts of money owed to the “supervisor of kezertu women” from the kezertu account. The employment of kezertu women in ritual performance is investigated as well as the managerial activities of the “supervisor of kezertu women.” The historical reasons for the migration of the cult of I scaron