Interchapter Query: Chapter 9 - 8. From the Temple Corporation to the Family Oikos (Household)
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Interchapter Query: Chapter 9
In Chapter 9: There are 2 mentions of Chapter 8, below.
Note: These are two of the known mentions of Chapter 8 (see this general query) that are (or were) in other chapters (as they were written in earlier edits). Some of these mentions were edited or were cut completely from other chapters but still provide a hint of what was intended to be added to Chapter 8, with your help. Mentions are indicated with code formatting (gray background with pink-color font on regular text, and normal blue-color font with gray background on links). This is an example of a mention of Chapter 8.
First Mention of Chapter 8 in Chapter 9
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As Chapter 8 has described,these commercial embassies were more in the character of quasi-official cults, organized as temple guilds with their own feast-days and sacred officials. The autonomy of these areas, often with their own temples, housed merchants.
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Second Mention of Chapter 8 in Chapter 9
2. Many cities had a dual character, sacred and civil, such as the great Sumerian city of Uruk with its Eanna district. Nippur apparently was a “normal” city alongside its sacred precinct housing the Ekur (“mountain house,” i.e., the ziggurat-pyramid) that lent its influence to the city as a whole. Benefiting from its sacred status, Nippur never asserted itself as the seat of an imperial dynasty, but drew resources and gave prestige to whatever cities held the leadership of southern Mesopotamia, e.g., Lagash, Umma, Uruk, or Ur. Much like the amphictyonic-type capitals
discussed in the preceding chapter [Chapter 8], such centers would not have had to be fortified as long as they remained strictly sacred and public in function, performing generally desired functions.
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