The term KU.AN is attested in more than a dozen administrative records from Umma of the Ur Ⅲ period(c.2112-2004 BC).An analysis of those records with respect to the context,the fonnula,and the people involved indicat...The term KU.AN is attested in more than a dozen administrative records from Umma of the Ur Ⅲ period(c.2112-2004 BC).An analysis of those records with respect to the context,the fonnula,and the people involved indicates that KU.AN may well refer to a treasury where treasures of a deity were kept in a temple.Such an analysis also sheds new light upon the function and organization of this kind of treasuries within the administrative framework of the Umma temples.展开更多
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文摘The term KU.AN is attested in more than a dozen administrative records from Umma of the Ur Ⅲ period(c.2112-2004 BC).An analysis of those records with respect to the context,the fonnula,and the people involved indicates that KU.AN may well refer to a treasury where treasures of a deity were kept in a temple.Such an analysis also sheds new light upon the function and organization of this kind of treasuries within the administrative framework of the Umma temples.
