Temple economy

The problem is that what is known about the institutional organization of religion and the organization of temple economies comes only from the records of those limited parts of it that intersect with the interests of the administration of the polity as housed in the palace. In contrast, many of the archives from southern Mesopotamia come from temples - the famous Bau archive is one such (Foster 1981) - and this situation has long been argued to have unduly slanted conceptions of the institutional organization of public and private, secular and sacred authority in Mesopotamia itself Variation in types of sources does explain the discrepancy to some limited extent. More important to my... 

Household and Family in Early Mesopotamia. In State and Temple Economy in the Ancient Near East, edited by E. Lipinski, 1 -97. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 5-6. Louvain Peeters. 

Erasmus Darwin (Elston Hall, Nottinghamshire, 12 December 1731-nr. Derby, 18 April 1802), physician and poet, introduced much science into his writings. In his poem The Temple of Nature or, the Origin of Society, 1803, there is a note on a chemical theory of electricity and magnetism. His Botanic Garden in two parts. The Economy of Vegetation and The Loves of the Plants (1791), also contains sections on chemistry. ... 

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