On the Cultic Aspect of the “Reforms of Urukagina”

Changes in the Festival of the Goddess Baba

Abstract

This paper, focusing on religious aspects rather than socio-economic ones, will argue that Urukagina put a reform policy into effect in the cultic sphere as a kind of manifestation of the reform. Some changes that occurred in the giš-tag offering lists of the Festival of the Goddess Baba between the reigns of Lugalanda and Urukagina seem to support this view.