►Whos is Shulgi? ►What is so special about the 3rd Dynasty of Ur? ►Why did civilization start? ►Could ancient women exercise a different religion than their husbands? ►Why do have 60 mins in an hour? ►Can a king be in two places at once?
🚩About My Guest:
Dr. Tonia Sharlach is professor at Oklahoma State University. Her fields of research and expertise include Ancient history, Sumerian and Babylonian civilization and religion, and women in Ancient Near Eastern religion.
She received her PhD from Harvard university and is the author of An Ox of One's Own: Royal Wives and Religion at the Court of the Third Dynasty of Ur - a book we discuss in this episode.
Her next project is tentatively titled Death and Taxes in Early Mesopotamia.
🚩Image description:
Portrait of Shulgi as a builder, on a foundation nail. Shulgi was the 2nd king of the Third Dynasty of Ur and reigned from c. 2094 to c. 2046 BC. He constructed the Great Zigguart of Ur.
This means 𒂄𒄀 Shulgi, and this 𒀭is a symbol for divinity used before his name. 🚩Dr. Amanda Podany tells us about an ancient Middle East in which diplomacy worked 🎧 Listen here.
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Image attribution:
Terracotta relief of Ishtar with wings from Larsa (second millennium BC). Image on Wikipedia, by Rama and one more author (Own work), provided under CC BY-SA 3.0 fr license. Image background removed & image transposed on a black background.
Music attributions:
1. Opening and closing music of the program:
Santur: Peyman Heydarian playing on the Santur some Iranian music. Recorded with a Sony PCM-D50 at the School of Oriental and African Studies of London on April 7th 2011.
Music available on at https://freesound.org/people/xserra/sounds/125654/
Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0 DEED)
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This music has been cut in shorter pieces and its volume has been adjusted in different portions of our program.
2. Background music to guest introduction:
The Desert | The Grand Score
The Desert | The Grand Score by Alexander Nakarada (CreatorChords) | https://creatorchords.com
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