Divine Activities
Divine Activities
Tell Sifr 24 (BM 33204):
Concerning Ipqusha's garden and all that which it produces, the sons of Sasiya and Sin-imgur will divide it equally. They swore on the king's name.
Witnesses: the god Nanna, the god Shamash, Annum-pi-..., Sin-erish, Warad-Ishtar, Sin-eribam.
Month 6, Rim-Sin 34 (1789 BCE).
Tell Sifr 24 tells us that gods could act as legal witnesses. In SAOC 44, 67, we see them act as economic creditors, too.
Mick1475 (@mick1475.bsky.social): Could it be... a shorthand for a temple?