This book provides an insight into the world of the priests of the Ezida
temple in Borsippa, covering the period when this sanctuary dedicated to
the god Nabu was Babylonia's second most important place of worship (c.
750-484 BC). The backbone of the book is the extensive corpus of
cuneiform texts that these priests have left behind. Discovered in the
19th century, these archives have largely remained unstudied.
Apart
from offering an edition of the texts (Part II), this study reconstructs
the professional and social lives of Nabu's priests, and outlines the
workings of the cult of a major Babylonian deity (Part I).
A
dvd-rom with digital photographs of edited texts is included.