Gods of the City, Gods of the People: The Pantheons of Adab in the Third Millennium B.C.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The main aim of this research was to identify the characteristics and trace the evolution of the pantheon of Adab throughout the third millennium BC, utilizing dedicatory and votive sources, rations and offering lists, and theophoric onomastic analysis. The research establishes three significant findings. First, the usage of divine names in inscriptions by regional rulers, local rulers, and elites unveils a correlation between the employment of these names and the legitimization of political power. Second, the reconstruction of the pantheon of gods worshipped in Adab through ration and offering lists differs from the pantheon derived from local rulers and elites, signifying diverse religious practices and the prominence of specific deities. Furthermore, by adopting a diachronic approach, this study uncovers shifts in cultic personnel associated with different gods, providing insight into the evolution of religious practices. By conducting a comprehensive analysis of the available sources, this thesis illuminates the dynamics of certain aspects of religious tradition in Adab, highlighting the complexities surrounding the selection and veneration of deities in the ancient city. These findings enhance our comprehension of the socio-political and religious landscape of the third millennium B.C., underscoring the multi-faceted nature of divine worship and its implications for the power structures and identities of Adab's inhabitants.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".