The Pantheon of the City-State of Umma in Third-Millennium BC Southern Mesopotamia
Im Rahmen des Colloquiums, das gemeinsam von der Altorientalistik und der Vorderasiatischen Archäologie veranstaltet wird, finden in regelmäßigen Abständen Vorträge zu neuen Forschungen am Institut sowie von auswärtigen Gelehrten statt.
Am Donnerstag, dem 7.5.2026 um 18 Uhr c.t.
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Dr. Andreas Johandi (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
über das Thema:
The Pantheon of the City-State of Umma in Third-Millennium BC Southern Mesopotamia
Kurzzusammenfassung:
The pantheon of the city‑state of Umma remains one of the least understood religious constellations of third‑millennium Mesopotamia. Compared with the relatively well‑studied pantheons of city‑states such as Lagaš, Nippur, or Adab, the divine world of Umma appears fragmentary and elusive. In recent years, however, the publication of numerous Early Dynastic and Sargonic administrative texts from the region has created new opportunities to revisit and reconsider Umma’s religious landscape.
This lecture offers observations on the pre‑Ur III Umma pantheon, based on intensive research undertaken within the framework of a post‑doctoral project at LMU Munich. It focuses on the local pantheons of the main cultic centres within the Umma region (such as KI.AN and Zabalam), the festival calendar, and the ways in which the relationships between deities—as well as the individual characteristics of these deities—can be interpreted on the basis of the surviving textual evidence. Taken together, these observations serve as a preliminary framework for reconstructing the pantheon of the Early Dynastic and Sargonic city‑state of Umma.
Der Vortrag findet im RS2 (Hofgebäude), Rosenstraße 9 statt.
Altorientalistik Vorderasiatische Archäologie
K. Kleber F. J. Kreppner