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Sheep Husbandry at the Temples in First Millennium Babylonia

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Animal husbandry in first millennium Babylonia was an important sector of the economy of the two well documented temple households, the Eanna in Uruk and the Ebabbar in Sippar. Most of our information on animal husbandry in that period comes from their archives. We know scarcely anything of animal husbandry in other temples (Larsa, Udannu, Borsippa) or the royal household due to the lack of archival evidence.

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Weszeli, M. (2019). For the Gods or for Money?. In: Mattila, R., Ito, S., Fink, S. (eds) Animals and their Relation to Gods, Humans and Things in the Ancient World. Universal- und kulturhistorische Studien. Studies in Universal and Cultural History. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-24388-3_19

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