06002cam a2200961Mi 4500 on1004868140 OCoLC 20200709060552.0 m d cr ||||||||||| 170913s2017 gw ob 001 0 eng d DEGRU eng rda pn DEGRU GWDNB OCLCQ IDEBK EBLCP YDX N$T CNCGM OCLCF UBY OCLCQ OCLCO 1140816349 DE-101 1140819291 DE-101 1004556186 1004602311 1004734184 9781501505263 1501505262 9781501505225 150150522X 9781501505270 1501505270 1501514474 9781501514470 10.1515/9781501505263 doi 9781501505263 urn:nbn:de:101:1-201710046894 urn 9781501505225 urn:nbn:de:101:1-201710049427 urn 1595367 (N$T) (OCoLC)1004868140 (OCoLC)1004556186 (OCoLC)1004602311 (OCoLC)1004734184 DS70.5.U7 S53 2017 HIS026000 bisacsh REL006090 bisacsh REL114000 bisacsh 1\p 930 DE-101 930 DE-101 sdnb MAIN Sharlach, T. M., author. An Ox of One's Own : Royal Wives and Religion at the Court of the Third Dynasty of Ur / T.M. Sharlach. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2017] ©2017 1 online resource (348 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER) ; 18 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. 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 on the archive of a woman who died about 2050 B.C., one of King Shulgi's many wives. Her birth name is unknown, but when she married, she became Shulgi-simti, "Suitable for Shulgi." Attested for only about 15 years, she existed among a court filled with other wives, who probably outranked her. A religious foundation was run on her behalf whereby courtiers, male and female, donated livestock for sacrifices to an unusual mix of goddesses and gods. Previous scholarship has declared this a rare example of a queen conducting women's religion, perhaps unusual because they say she came from abroad. The conclusions of this book are quite different. An Ox of One's Own lays out the evidence that another woman was queen at this time in Nippur while Shulgi-simti lived in Ur and was a third-ranking concubine at best, with few economic resources. Shulgi-simti's religious exercises concentrated on a quartet of north Babylonian goddesses. In English. Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017). Includes bibliographical references and index. Master record variable field(s) change: 082 Ur (Extinct city) Civilization. HISTORY Civilization. bisacsh Civilization. fast (OCoLC)fst00862898 Iraq Ur (Extinct city) fast (OCoLC)fst01896867 (Produktform)Electronic book text (Zielgruppe)Fachpublikum/ Wissenschaft (BISAC Subject Heading)REL006090 (BISAC Subject Heading)HIS026000: HIS026000 HISTORY / Middle East / General (BISAC Subject Heading)REL114000: REL114000 RELIGION / Ancient Ishtar Shulgi-simti; Harem; Ishtar; Third Dynasty of Ur Shulgi-simti Harem Ur-III-Zeit (VLB-WN)9542 Third Dynasty of Ur (Produktrabattgruppe)PR: rabattbeschränkt/Bibliothekswerke Electronic books. bundle 9781501505270 EPUB 9781501505225 print 9781501514470 Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER) ; 18. EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1595367 De Gruyter DEGR 9781501505263 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL5049509 EBSCOhost EBSC 1595367 ProQuest MyiLibrary Digital eBook Collection IDEB cis37568948 YBP Library Services YANK 14812150 92 N$T 57424 57424