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Nisaba, the Glossary

Nisaba was the Mesopotamian goddess of writing and grain.^[1]

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Abu Salabikh

The archaeological site of Abu Salabikh (Tell Abū Ṣalābīkh), around northwest of the site of ancient Nippur and about 150 kilometers southeast of the modern city of Baghdad in Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate, Iraq marks the site of a small Sumerian city that existed from the Neolithic through the late 3rd millennium, with cultural connections to the cities of Kish, Mari and Ebla.

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Akkadian Empire

The Akkadian Empire was the first known ancient empire of Mesopotamia, succeeding the long-lived civilization of Sumer.

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Akkadian language

Akkadian (translit)John Huehnergard & Christopher Woods, "Akkadian and Eblaite", The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages.

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Aleppo

Aleppo (ﺣَﻠَﺐ, ALA-LC) is a city in Syria, which serves as the capital of the Aleppo Governorate, the most populous governorate of Syria.

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Amorite language

Amorite is an extinct early Semitic language, formerly spoken during the Bronze Age by the Amorite tribes prominent in ancient Near Eastern history.

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An = Anum

An.

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Ancient Mesopotamian underworld

The ancient Mesopotamian underworld (known in Sumerian as Kur, Irkalla, Kukku, Arali, or Kigal, and in Akkadian as Erṣetu), was the lowermost part of the ancient near eastern cosmos, roughly parallel to the region known as Tartarus from early Greek cosmology.

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Andrew R. George

Andrew R. George (born 1955) is a British Assyriologist and academic best known for his edition and translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh.

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Annunitum

Annunitum (also romanized as Anunītu) was a Mesopotamian goddess associated with warfare. Nisaba and Annunitum are Mesopotamian goddesses.

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Anu

Anu (𒀭𒀭, from 𒀭 an "Sky", "Heaven") or Anum, originally An (𒀭), was the divine personification of the sky, king of the gods, and ancestor of many of the deities in ancient Mesopotamian religion.

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Anubanini

Anubanini, also Anobanini (𒀭𒉡𒁀𒉌𒉌: An-nu-ba-ni-ni), was a king (𒈗 Šàr, pronounced Shar) of the pre-Iranian tribal kingdom of Lullubi in the Zagros Mountains circa 2300 BCE, or relatively later during the Isin-Larsa period of Mesopotamia, circa 2000-1900 BCE.

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Aruru (goddess)

Aruru was a Mesopotamian goddess. Nisaba and Aruru (goddess) are Mesopotamian goddesses.

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Ashnan

Ashnan or Ezina (d; both possible readings are used interchangeably) was a Mesopotamian goddess considered to be the personification of grain. Nisaba and Ashnan are Agricultural goddesses and Mesopotamian goddesses.

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Ashur (god)

Ashur, Ashshur, also spelled Ašur, Aššur (𒀭𒊹|translit.

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Assur

Aššur (𒀭𒊹𒆠 AN.ŠAR2KI, Assyrian cuneiform: Aš-šurKI, "City of God Aššur"; ܐܫܘܪ Āšūr; 𐎠𐎰𐎢𐎼 Aθur, آشور Āšūr; אַשּׁוּר, اشور), also known as Ashur and Qal'at Sherqat, was the capital of the Old Assyrian city-state (2025–1364 BC), the Middle Assyrian Empire (1363–912 BC), and for a time, of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–609 BC).

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Assyriology

Assyriology (from Greek Ἀσσυρίᾱ, Assyriā; and -λογία, -logia), also known as Cuneiform studies or Ancient Near East studies, is the archaeological, anthropological, historical, and linguistic study of the cultures that used cuneiform writing.

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Aya (goddess)

Aya was a Mesopotamian goddess associated with dawn. Nisaba and Aya (goddess) are Mesopotamian goddesses.

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É (temple)

É (Cuneiform) is the Sumerian word or symbol for house or temple.

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Babylon

Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 miles) south of modern day Baghdad.

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Babylonia

Babylonia (𒆳𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠) was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based in the city of Babylon in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq and parts of Syria and Iran).

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Bau (goddess)

Bau, also read Baba or Babu (cuneiform: 𒀭𒁀𒌑 dBa-U2), was a Mesopotamian goddess. Nisaba and Bau (goddess) are Mesopotamian goddesses.

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Cuneiform

Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic writing system that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Near East.

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Cylinder seal

A cylinder seal is a small round cylinder, typically about one inch (2 to 3 cm) in length, engraved with written characters or figurative scenes or both, used in ancient times to roll an impression onto a two-dimensional surface, generally wet clay.

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Dagon

Dagon (דָּגוֹן, Dāgōn) or Dagan (𒀭𒁕𒃶; Dāgān) was a god worshipped in ancient Syria across the middle of the Euphrates, with primary temples located in Tuttul and Terqa, though many attestations of his cult come from cities such as Mari and Emar as well.

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Dilbat

Dilbat (modern Tell ed-Duleim or Tell al-Deylam) was an ancient Near Eastern city located 25 kilometers south of Babylon on the eastern bank of the Western Euphrates in modern-day Babil Governorate, Iraq.

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Dingir

Dingir ⟨⟩, usually transliterated DIĜIR, is a Sumerian word for 'god' or 'goddess'.

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Early Dynastic Period (Mesopotamia)

The Early Dynastic period (abbreviated ED period or ED) is an archaeological culture in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) that is generally dated to and was preceded by the Uruk and Jemdet Nasr periods.

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Ebla

Ebla (Sumerian: eb₂-la, إبلا., modern: تل مرديخ, Tell Mardikh) was one of the earliest kingdoms in Syria.

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Elam

Elam (Linear Elamite: hatamti; Cuneiform Elamite:; Sumerian:; Akkadian:; עֵילָם ʿēlām; 𐎢𐎺𐎩 hūja) was an ancient civilization centered in the far west and southwest of modern-day Iran, stretching from the lowlands of what is now Khuzestan and Ilam Province as well as a small part of southern Iraq.

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Eleanor Robson

Eleanor Robson, (born 1969) is a British Assyriologist and academic.

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Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature

The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL) is an online digital library of texts and translations of Sumerian literature that was created by a now-completed project based at the Oriental Institute of the University of Oxford.

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Emar

Emar, is an archaeological site at Tell Meskene in the Aleppo Governorate of northern Syria.

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Enki

Enki (𒀭𒂗𒆠) is the Sumerian god of water, knowledge (gestú), crafts (gašam), and creation (nudimmud), and one of the Anunnaki. Nisaba and Enki are scribes.

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Enlil

Enlil, later known as Elil and Ellil, is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated with wind, air, earth, and storms.

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Enlil-bani

Enlil-bāni,Inscribed dEn-líl-dù or dEn-líl-ba-ni.

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Enmerkar and En-suhgir-ana

Enmerkar and En-suhgir-ana (also known as Enmerkar and Ensuhkešdanna) is a text in Sumerian literature appearing as a sequel to Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, and is second in a series of four accounts describing the contests of Aratta against Enmerkar, lord of Unug and Kulaba, and his successor Lugalbanda, father of Gilgamesh.

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Eridu

Eridu (𒆠|translit.

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Erridupizir

Erridupizir (Erridu-pizir) (fl. 2141–2138 BC (Short chronology)) was a Gutian ruler in Sumer.

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Eshnunna

Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar in Diyala Governorate, Iraq) was an ancient Sumerian (and later Akkadian) city and city-state in central Mesopotamia 12.6 miles northwest of Tell Agrab and 15 miles northwest of Tell Ishchali.

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First Sealand dynasty

The First Sealand dynasty (URU.KÙKIWhere ŠEŠ-ḪA of King List A and ŠEŠ-KÙ-KI of King List B are read as URU.KÙ.KI), or the 2nd Dynasty of Babylon (although it was independent of Amorite-ruled Babylon), very speculatively c. 1732–1460 BC (short chronology), is an enigmatic series of kings attested to primarily in laconic references in the king lists A and B, and as contemporaries recorded on the Assyrian Synchronistic king list A.117.

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Geshtinanna

Geshtinanna was a Mesopotamian goddess best known due to her role in myths about the death of Dumuzi, her brother. Nisaba and Geshtinanna are Mesopotamian goddesses, scribes and wisdom goddesses.

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Girsu

Girsu (Sumerian Ĝirsu; cuneiform 𒄈𒋢𒆠) was a city of ancient Sumer, situated some northwest of Lagash, at the site of what is now Tell Telloh in Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq.

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Gula (goddess)

Gula (Sumerian: "the great") was a Mesopotamian goddess of medicine, portrayed as a divine physician and midwife. Nisaba and Gula (goddess) are Mesopotamian goddesses.

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Gutian people

The Guti, also known by the derived exonyms Gutians or Guteans, were a people of the ancient Near East.

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Gutian rule in Mesopotamia

The Gutian dynasty (Sumerian:, gu-ti-umKI) was a line of kings, originating among the Gutian people.

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Hadad

Hadad (𐎅𐎄|translit.

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Hamazi

Hamazi or Khamazi (Sumerian:, ha-ma-ziki, or Ḫa-ma-zi2ki) was an ancient kingdom or city-state which became prominent during the Early Dynastic period.

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Haya (god)

Haya was a Mesopotamian god associated with scribal arts and possibly with grain.

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History of Mesopotamia

The history of Mesopotamia ranges from the earliest human occupation in the Paleolithic period up to Late antiquity.

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History of Syria

The history of Syria covers events which occurred on the territory of the present Syrian Arab Republic and events which occurred in the region of Syria.

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Hittite mythology and religion

Hittite mythology and Hittite religion were the religious beliefs and practices of the Hittites, who created an empire centered in what is now Turkey from.

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Hurrian language

Hurrian is an extinct Hurro-Urartian language spoken by the Hurrians (Khurrites), a people who entered northern Mesopotamia around 2300 BC and had mostly vanished by 1000 BC.

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Hurrian religion

The Hurrian religion was the polytheistic religion of the Hurrians, a Bronze Age people of the Near East who chiefly inhabited the north of the Fertile Crescent.

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Ištaran

Ištaran (Ishtaran; 𒀭𒅗𒁲) was a Mesopotamian god who was the tutelary deity of the city of Der, a city-state located east of the Tigris, in the proximity of the borders of Elam.

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Iddin-Sin

Iddi(n)-Sin (𒀭𒄿𒋾𒀭𒂗𒍪: Iddî-Sîn) was a King (𒈗 Šàr, pronounced Shar) of the Kingdom of Simurrum around 2000 to 1900 BCE.

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Inanna

Inanna is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility. Nisaba and Inanna are Mesopotamian goddesses.

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Inanna of Zabalam

Inanna of Zabalam (also Supālītum, Sugallītu, Nin-Zabalam) was a hypostasis of the Mesopotamian goddess Inanna associated with the city of Zabalam. Nisaba and Inanna of Zabalam are Mesopotamian goddesses.

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Irḫan

Irḫan was a Mesopotamian god who personified the western branch of the Euphrates, which in the first millennium BCE became its main course.

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Kabta

Kabta, inscribed dkab-ta, dka-ab-ta, dTA-gu-nû, or later dTAxMI, was a rather obscure Mesopotamian deity who appears in texts and seals of the second and first millennium BC.

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Kassites

The Kassites were people of the ancient Near East, who controlled Babylonia after the fall of the Old Babylonian Empire and until (short chronology).

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Kesh (Sumer)

Kesh (Keš or Keši) was an ancient Sumerian city and religious site, whose patron goddess was Ninhursag.

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Kesh temple hymn

The Kesh temple hymn, Liturgy to Nintud, or Liturgy to Nintud on the creation of man and woman, is a Sumerian tablet, written on clay tablets as early as 2600 BCE.

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Kish (Sumer)

Kish (Kiš;; cuneiform: 𒆧𒆠; Kiššatu, near modern Tell al-Uhaymir) is an important archaeological site in Babil Governorate (Iraq), located south of Baghdad and east of the ancient city of Babylon.

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Kumarbi

Kumarbi, also known as Kumurwe, Kumarwi and Kumarma, was a Hurrian god. Nisaba and Kumarbi are Dagon.

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Kusu (goddess)

Kusu was a Mesopotamian goddess associated with purification and with grain. Nisaba and Kusu (goddess) are Mesopotamian goddesses.

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Lagaba

Lagaba was a city in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now southern Iraq).

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Lagash

Lagash (cuneiform: LAGAŠKI; Sumerian: Lagaš) was an ancient city state located northwest of the junction of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers and east of Uruk, about east of the modern town of Al-Shatrah, Iraq.

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Lamassu

Lama, Lamma, or Lamassu (Cuneiform:,; Sumerian: lammař; later in Akkadian: lamassu; sometimes called a lamassus) is an Assyrian protective deity. Nisaba and lamassu are Mesopotamian goddesses.

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Lipit-Ishtar

Lipit-Ishtar (Akkadian: Lipit-Ištar; fl. c. 1870 BC – c. 1860 BC by the short chronology of the ancient Near East) was the 5th king of the First Dynasty of Isin, according to the Sumerian King List (SKL).

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List of Mesopotamian deities

Deities in ancient Mesopotamia were almost exclusively anthropomorphic.

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Lugal

(Sumerian) is the Sumerian term for "king, ruler".

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Lugal-zage-si

Lugal-Zage-Si (LUGAL.ZAG.GE.SI; frequently spelled Lugalzaggesi, sometimes Lugalzagesi or "Lugal-Zaggisi") of Umma (reigned 2358 – 2334 BCE middle chronology) was the last Sumerian king before the conquest of Sumer by Sargon of Akkad and the rise of the Akkadian Empire, and was considered as the only king of the third dynasty of Uruk, according to the Sumerian King List.

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Lugalbanda

Lugalbanda was a deified Sumerian king of Uruk who, according to various sources of Mesopotamian literature, was the father of Gilgamesh.

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Lullubi

Lullubi, Lulubi (𒇻𒇻𒉈: Lu-lu-bi, 𒇻𒇻𒉈𒆠: Lu-lu-biki "Country of the Lullubi"), more commonly known as Lullu, were a group of Bronze Age tribes during the 3rd millennium BC, from a region known as Lulubum, now the Sharazor plain of the Zagros Mountains of modern-day Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraq.

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Manungal

Nungal (𒀭𒎏𒃲 dNun-gal, "great princess"), also known as Manungal and possibly Bēlet-balāṭi, was the Mesopotamian goddess of prisons, sometimes also associated with the underworld. Nisaba and Manungal are Mesopotamian goddesses.

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Marduk-apla-iddina I

Marduk-apla-iddina I, contemporarily written in cuneiform as 𒀭𒀫𒌓𒌉𒍑𒋧𒈾 and meaning in Akkadian: "Marduk has given an heir", was the 34th Kassite king of Babylon 1171–1159 BC (short chronology).

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Mari, Syria

Mari (Cuneiform:, ma-riki, modern Tell Hariri; تل حريري) was an ancient Semitic city-state in modern-day Syria.

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Miguel Civil

Miguel Civil (Miquel Civil i Desveus; May 7, 1926 – January 13, 2019) was an American Assyriologist and expert on Sumer and Ancient Mesopotamian studies at the University of Chicago Oriental Institute.

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Nabu

Nabu (cuneiform: 𒀭𒀝 Nabû, Nəḇo) is the Babylonian patron god of literacy, the rational arts, scribes, and wisdom. Nisaba and Nabu are scribes.

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Nanshe

Nanshe (𒀭𒀏 dNANŠE (AB✕ḪA)) was a Mesopotamian goddess in various contexts associated with the sea, marshlands, the animals inhabiting these biomes, namely bird and fish, as well as divination, dream interpretation, justice, social welfare, and certain administrative tasks. Nisaba and Nanshe are Mesopotamian goddesses.

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Naram-Sin of Akkad

Naram-Sin, also transcribed Narām-Sîn or Naram-Suen (𒀭𒈾𒊏𒄠𒀭𒂗𒍪: DNa-ra-am DSîn, meaning "Beloved of the Moon God Sîn", the "𒀭" a determinative marking the name of a god), was a ruler of the Akkadian Empire, who reigned –2218 BC (middle chronology), and was the third successor and grandson of King Sargon of Akkad.

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Neo-Babylonian Empire

The Neo-Babylonian Empire or Second Babylonian Empire, historically known as the Chaldean Empire, was the last polity ruled by monarchs native to Mesopotamia until Faisal II in the 20th century.

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Nimrud

Nimrud (ܢܢܡܪܕ النمرود) is an ancient Assyrian city (original Assyrian name Kalḫu, biblical name Calah) located in Iraq, south of the city of Mosul, and south of the village of Selamiyah (السلامية), in the Nineveh Plains in Upper Mesopotamia.

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Ningirima

Ningirima was a Mesopotamian goddess associated with incantations, attested already in the Early Dynastic period. Nisaba and Ningirima are Mesopotamian goddesses.

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Ninhursag

Ninḫursaĝ (𒀭𒎏𒄯𒊕 Ninḫarsang), sometimes transcribed Ninursag, Ninḫarsag, or Ninḫursaĝa, also known as Damgalnuna or Ninmah, was the ancient Sumerian mother goddess of the mountains, and one of the seven great deities of Sumer. Nisaba and Ninhursag are Mesopotamian goddesses.

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Ninimma

Ninimma was a Mesopotamian goddess best known as a courtier of Enlil. Nisaba and Ninimma are knowledge goddesses, Mesopotamian goddesses, scribes and wisdom goddesses.

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Ninisina

Ninisina (Sumerian: "Mistress of Isin") was a Mesopotamian goddess who served as the tutelary deity of the city of Isin. Nisaba and Ninisina are Mesopotamian goddesses.

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Ninlil

Ninlil (DNIN.LÍL; meaning uncertain) was a Mesopotamian goddess regarded as the wife of Enlil. Nisaba and Ninlil are Mesopotamian goddesses.

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Ninshubur

Ninshubur (Ninšubur, "Lady of Subartu" or "Lady of servants"), also spelled Ninšubura, was a Mesopotamian goddess whose primary role was that of the sukkal (divine attendant) of the goddess Inanna. Nisaba and Ninshubur are Mesopotamian goddesses and wisdom goddesses.

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Ninsianna

Ninsianna (Sumerian: "Red Queen of Heaven") was a Mesopotamian deity considered to be the personification of Venus. Nisaba and Ninsianna are Mesopotamian goddesses.

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Ninsun

Ninsun (also called Ninsumun, cuneiform: dNIN.SUMUN2; Sumerian: Nin-sumun(ak) "lady of the wild cows") was a Mesopotamian goddess. Nisaba and Ninsun are Mesopotamian goddesses.

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Nintinugga

Nintinugga (also romanized as Nintinuga) was a Mesopotamian goddess associated with medicine and cleansing. Nisaba and Nintinugga are Mesopotamian goddesses.

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Ninurta

Ninurta (𒀭𒊩𒌆𒅁:, possible meaning "Lord Barley"), also known as Ninĝirsu (𒀭𒎏𒄈𒋢:, meaning "Lord Girsu"), is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated with farming, healing, hunting, law, scribes, and war who was first worshipped in early Sumer.

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Nippur

Nippur (Sumerian: Nibru, often logographically recorded as, EN.LÍLKI, "Enlil City;"I. E. S. Edwards, C. J. Gadd, N. G. L. Hammond, The Cambridge Ancient History: Prolegomena & Prehistory: Vol. 1, Part 1, Cambridge University Press, 1970 Akkadian: Nibbur) was an ancient Sumerian city.

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Nuska

Nuska or Nusku, possibly also known as Našuḫ, was a Mesopotamian god best attested as the sukkal (divine vizier) of Enlil.

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Old Assyrian period

The Old Assyrian period was the second stage of Assyrian history, covering the history of the city of Assur from its rise as an independent city-state under Ushpia 2080 BC, and consolidated under Puzur-Ashur I 2025 BC to the foundation of a larger Assyrian territorial state and empire after the accession of Ashur-uballit I 1363 BC, which marks the beginning of the succeeding Middle Assyrian period.

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Old Babylonian Empire

The Old Babylonian Empire, or First Babylonian Empire, is dated to, and comes after the end of Sumerian power with the destruction of the Third Dynasty of Ur, and the subsequent Isin-Larsa period.

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Pergamon Museum

The Pergamon Museum is a listed building on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin, Germany.

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Pictogram

A pictogram (also pictogramme, pictograph, or simply picto) is a graphical symbol that conveys meaning through its visual resemblance to a physical object.

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Proto-cuneiform

The proto-cuneiform script was a system of proto-writing that emerged in Mesopotamia, eventually developing into the early cuneiform script used in the region's Early Dynastic I period.

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Rachel Maxwell-Hyslop

Kathleen Rachel Maxwell-Hyslop, (née Clay, 27 March 1914 – 9 May 2011) was an English archaeologist and scholar of the Ancient Near East.

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Sarpanit

Zarpanitu (also romanized as Ṣarpānītu) was a Mesopotamian goddess regarded as the spouse of Marduk. Nisaba and Sarpanit are Mesopotamian goddesses.

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Shala

Shala (Šala) was a Mesopotamian goddess of weather and grain and the wife of the weather god Adad. Nisaba and Shala are Agricultural goddesses and Mesopotamian goddesses.

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Shamash

Shamash (Akkadian: šamaš), also known as Utu (Sumerian: dutu "Sun") was the ancient Mesopotamian sun god.

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Sheaf (agriculture)

A sheaf (sheaves) is a bunch of cereal-crop stems bound together after reaping, traditionally by sickle, later by scythe or, after its introduction in 1872, by a mechanical reaper-binder.

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Shuruppak

Shuruppak (𒋢𒆳𒊒𒆠, SU.KUR.RUki, "the healing place"), modern Tell Fara, was an ancient Sumerian city situated about 55 kilometres (35 mi) south of Nippur and 30 kilometers north of ancient Uruk on the banks of the Euphrates in Iraq's Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate.

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Simurrum

Simurrum (𒋛𒈬𒌨𒊑𒅎: Si-mu-ur-ri-im) was an important city state of the Mesopotamian area from around 2000 BCE to 1500 BCE, during the period of the Akkadian Empire down to Ur III.

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Sin (mythology)

Sin or Suen (𒀭𒂗𒍪, dEN.ZU) also known as Nanna (𒀭𒋀𒆠 DŠEŠ.KI, DNANNA) is the Mesopotamian god representing the moon.

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Sin-Muballit

Sin-Muballit was the father of Hammurabi and the fifth Amorite king of the first dynasty (the Amorite Dynasty) of Babylonia, reigning c. 1813-1792 or 1748-1729 BC (see Chronology of the Ancient Near East).

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Sippar

Sippar (Sumerian:, Zimbir) was an ancient Near Eastern Sumerian and later Babylonian city on the east bank of the Euphrates river.

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Sukkal

Sukkal (conventionally translated from Sumerian as "vizier") was a term which could denote both a type of official and a class of deities in ancient Mesopotamia.

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Sulaymaniyah

Sulaymaniyah or Slemani (Silêmanî; as-Sulaymāniyyah), is a city in the east of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and is the capital of the Sulaymaniyah Governorate.

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Sultantepe

The ancient temple-complex, perhaps of Huzirina, now represented by the tell of Sultantepe, is a Late Assyrian archeological site at the edge of the Neo-Assyrian empire, now in Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey.

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Sumerian language

Sumerian (Also written 𒅴𒄀 eme-gi.ePSD2 entry for emegir.|'native language'|) was the language of ancient Sumer.

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Sumerian religion

Sumerian religion was the religion practiced by the people of Sumer, the first literate civilization found in recorded history and based in ancient Mesopotamia, and what is modern day Iraq.

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Susa

Susa (Middle translit; Middle and Neo-translit; Neo-Elamite and Achaemenid translit; Achaemenid translit; شوش; שׁוּשָׁן; Σοῦσα; ܫܘܫ; 𐭮𐭥𐭱𐭩 or 𐭱𐭥𐭮; 𐏂𐎢𐏁𐎠) was an ancient city in the lower Zagros Mountains about east of the Tigris, between the Karkheh and Dez Rivers in Iran.

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Syncretism

Syncretism is the practice of combining different beliefs and various schools of thought.

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Third Dynasty of Ur

The Third Dynasty of Ur, also called the Neo-Sumerian Empire, refers to a 22nd to 21st century BC (middle chronology) Sumerian ruling dynasty based in the city of Ur and a short-lived territorial-political state which some historians consider to have been a nascent empire.

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Ugarit

Ugarit (𐎜𐎂𐎗𐎚, ʾUgarītu) was an ancient port city in northern Syria about 10 kilometers north of modern Latakia.

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Ugaritic alphabet

The Ugaritic writing system is a cuneiform abjad (consonantal alphabet) with syllabic elements used from around either 1400 BCE or 1300 BCE for Ugaritic, an extinct Northwest Semitic language.

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Umma

Umma (𒄑𒆵𒆠; in modern Dhi Qar Province in Iraq, was an ancient city in Sumer. There is some scholarly debate about the Sumerian and Akkadian names for this site. Traditionally, Umma was identified with Tell Jokha. More recently it has been suggested that it was located at Umm al-Aqarib, less than to its northwest or was even the name of both cities.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisaba

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See also

Dagon

Knowledge goddesses

Scribes

Wisdom goddesses

References