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Ancient Sumerian statuette of two gala priests, dating to c. 2450 BC, found in the temple of Inanna at Mari. The Gala (Sumerian: 𒍑𒆪, romanized: gala, Akkadian: kalû) were priests of the Sumerian goddess Inanna. They made up a significant number of the personnel of both temples and palaces, the central institutions of Mesopotamian city ...
As a literary genre, the balag was written in the cuneiform script and sung by the Gala priest in a dialect of Sumerian called Emesal (𒅴𒊩 eme-sal). [8] [9] Each balag is composed for a particular god. [7] The precursor to the balag was the City Lament, a type of prayer that was recited when temples were destroyed and rebuilt. [7]
Unlike his successors, Meshkiangasher is not found in any poem or hymn besides the King list. His reign has long been suspected to be a fabrication during the Ur III period [3] due to the Sumerian-Akkadian hybrid structure of his name, the element MES, which occurs in historical royal names of Ur, and the tradition about his disappearance. [4]
En (Borger 2003 nr. 164 ; U+12097 𒂗, see also Ensí) is the Sumerian cuneiform for 'lord/lady' or 'priest[ess]'. Originally, it seems to have been used to designate a high priest or priestess of a Sumerian city-state 's patron-deity [ 2 ] – a position that entailed political power as well.
Sumerian religion was the religion practiced by the people of Sumer, the first literate civilization found in recorded history and based in ancient Mesopotamia, and what is modern day Iraq. The Sumerians widely regarded their divinities as responsible for all matters pertaining to the natural and social orders of their society.
2. Year: (Ibbi-Suen) chose by means of the omens the en-priest of Inanna in Uruk 3. Year: Ibbi-Suen, the king of Ur, destroyed Simurrum 4. Year: Enamgalanna was installed as en-priest of Inanna 5. Year: The governor of Zabšali married Tukin-hatti-migrisha, the king's daughter 6. Year: Ibbi-Suen, the king of Ur, built for Nippur and Ur their ...
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Monumental stone relief (probably) of an Apkallu figure from the Temple of Ninurta in the Assyrian city of Kalhu, formerly believed by some experts to be a representation of an āšipu "exorcist-priest", [1] who functioned as a healer and doctor [2] In ancient Mesopotamia, the ašipu (also āšipu or mašmaššu) acted as priests.