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[German version] I. Mesopotamia From the 3rd millennium to the end of Mesopotamian civilization, the staff of Mesopotamian temples consisted of the cult personnel in the narrower sense - i.e. the priests and priestesses who looked after the official cult in the temples, the cult musicians and singers - and the service staff (male and female courtyard cleaners, cooks, etc.). In addition, there was the hierarchically structured administrative and financial staff of the temple households, which constituted large economic units in Babylonia. Organization and composition of the priesthood differed significantly between Assyria [7] and Babylonia [10], and between northern and southern Babylonia. In order to understand religious practice in Mesopotamia, it is important to keep in mind that the experts of divination and incantations were not cult priests, but should instead be regarded as eru…