Spelling of Term - 6. The Distributive Justice of Group Feasts and Banquets
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Query: 6. The Distributive Justice of Group Feasts and Banquets
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Compensation “prices” were inscribed in Mesopotamia’s public laws beginning with Urukagina’s “reform text” c. 2350 BC, which specified the number of loaves of bread due to ritual priests for conducting marriage and burial ceremonies. Ultimately such payments were monetized.
Originally this was spelled “Uruinimgina’s” before we changed it to “Urukagina’s” to match Chapter 3 and elsewhere. Perhaps this is how it is spelled in the Malul text (can someone with access to that text check?) (Meir Malul, Studies in Mesopotamian Legal Symbolism [Neukirchen-Vluyn: 1988])? Do you know if there is a significance in the difference of spelling that means we should undo our change here?
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