Notes on Some Officials of the Sargonid Period: Part of a Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in ... (Department of Semitics) (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Allen Howard Godbey

9780267692156: Notes on Some Officials of the Sargonid Period: Part of a Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in ... (Department of Semitics) (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0267692153 ISBN 13: 9780267692156

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Inside the Sargonid world of temple and storehouse, learn how officials kept order, wealth, and rituals in ancient Mesopotamia.

This scholarly study examines roles like the kepu (storehouse supervisor), the TU.biti (temple overseer), and the sangu (temple foreground priest), showing how these offices connected temple revenues, land management, and religious life. Drawing on cuneiform tablets, inscriptions, and early royal documents, the work traces how these officials evolved from custodians of sacred spaces to powerful intermediaries between king, temple, and people.

See how temple stores, revenues, and land were managed and taxed in practice.
Understand the relationships between different official roles and their evolving duties.
Explore how language and titles reveal social status, authority, and administrative networks.
Compare ancient offices with later religious and secular roles to map long-term development.

Ideal for readers of ancient Near Eastern history, Assyriology, and the study of temple economies, this edition offers detailed notes, translations, and analysis that illuminate daily governance and sacred duty in the Sargonid period.

Ideal for students and scholars seeking a precise, field-grounded view of how temple and royal administration intertwined in deep, ancient history.

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