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188 relations: Ašratum, Abu (god), Abu Salabikh, Addendum, Akkadian Empire, Akkadian language, Amarna, Amasagnudi, Amorites, Amurru (god), Ancestors of Enlil, Ancient Mesopotamian underworld, Ancient Near East, Andrew R. George, Antu (goddess), Anu, Ashgi, Assur, Assyria, Aya (goddess), É (temple), Šulpae, Šumugan, Babylon, Babylonia, Bau (goddess), Bizilla, Clay tablet, Colophon (publishing), Cuneiform, Dagon, Damgalnuna, Damu, Decipherment of cuneiform, Dietz-Otto Edzard, Dilmun, Ditto mark, Dumuzid, Early Dynastic Period (Mesopotamia), Elam, Emar, Enki, Enkidu, Enlil, Enmesharra, Epic of Gilgamesh, Epithet, Epithets of Inanna, Ereshkigal, Gatumdug, ... Expand index (138 more) »
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Ašratum
Ašratum (dAš-ra-tum, in Larsa dA-ši-ra-tum) was a Mesopotamian goddess of Amorite origin.
Abu (god)
Abu was a Mesopotamian god.
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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Addendum
An addendum or appendix, in general, is an addition required to be made to a document by its author subsequent to its printing or publication.
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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Amarna
Amarna (al-ʿAmārna) is an extensive ancient Egyptian archaeological site containing the remains of what was the capital city during the late Eighteenth Dynasty.
Amasagnudi
Amasagnudi was a Mesopotamian goddess regarded as a servant of Anu and as the wife of Papsukkal.
Amorites
The Amorites (author-link, Pl. XXVIII e+i|MAR.TU; Amurrūm or Tidnum Tidnum; ʾĔmōrī; Ἀμορραῖοι) were an ancient Northwest Semitic-speaking Bronze Age people from the Levant.
Amurru (god)
Amurru, also known under the Sumerian name Martu (in Sumerian and Sumerograms: 𒀭𒈥𒌅), was a Mesopotamian god who served as the divine personification of the Amorites.
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Ancestors of Enlil
Ancestors of Enlil or Enki-Ninki deities were a group of Mesopotamian deities.
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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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Ancient Near East
The ancient Near East was the home of early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia (modern Iraq, southeast Turkey, southwest Iran, and northeastern Syria), ancient Egypt, ancient Persia (Elam, Media, Parthia, and Persis), Anatolia and the Armenian highlands (Turkey's Eastern Anatolia Region, Armenia, northwestern Iran, southern Georgia, and western Azerbaijan), the Levant (modern Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Cyprus) and the Arabian Peninsula.
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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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Antu (goddess)
Antu or Antum was a Mesopotamian goddess regarded as the feminine counterpart and spouse of the sky god, Anu.
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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.
Ashgi
Ashgi (𒀭𒋓𒄄 Ašgi) was a Mesopotamian god associated with Adab and Kesh.
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).
Assyria
Assyria (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: x16px, māt Aššur) was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization which existed as a city-state from the 21st century BC to the 14th century BC, which eventually expanded into an empire from the 14th century BC to the 7th century BC.
Aya (goddess)
Aya was a Mesopotamian goddess associated with dawn.
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É (temple)
É (Cuneiform) is the Sumerian word or symbol for house or temple.
Šulpae
Šulpae was a Mesopotamian god.
Šumugan
Šumugan, Šamagan, Šumuqan or Šakkan (𒀭𒄊) was a god worshipped in Mesopotamia and ancient Syria.
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.
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).
Bau (goddess)
Bau, also read Baba or Babu (cuneiform: 𒀭𒁀𒌑 dBa-U2), was a Mesopotamian goddess.
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Bizilla
Bizilla (also spelled Bizila) was a Mesopotamian goddess closely associated with Nanaya and like her sometimes listed alongside courtiers of Inanna.
Clay tablet
In the Ancient Near East, clay tablets (Akkadian 𒁾) were used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform, throughout the Bronze Age and well into the Iron Age. An = Anum and clay tablet are clay tablets.
Colophon (publishing)
In publishing, a colophon is a brief statement containing information about the publication of a book such as an "imprint" (the place of publication, the publisher, and the date of publication). An = Anum and colophon (publishing) are clay tablets.
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Cuneiform
Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic writing system that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Near East.
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.
Damgalnuna
Damgalnuna, also known as Damkina, was a Mesopotamian goddess regarded as the wife of the god Enki.
Damu
Damu (𒀭𒁕𒈬.) was a Mesopotamian god.
Decipherment of cuneiform
The decipherment of cuneiform began with the decipherment of Old Persian cuneiform between 1802 and 1836.
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Dietz-Otto Edzard
Dietz-Otto Edzard (28 August 1930 in Bremen – 2 June 2004 in Munich) was a German scholar of the Ancient Near East and grammarian of the Sumerian language.
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Dilmun
Dilmun, or Telmun, (Sumerian:,Transliteration: Similar text: later 𒉌𒌇(𒆠), NI.TUKki.
Ditto mark
The ditto mark is a shorthand sign, used mostly in hand-written text, indicating that the words or figures above it are to be repeated.
Dumuzid
Dumuzid or Dumuzi or Tammuz (𒌉𒍣|Dumuzid; italic; Tammūz), known to the Sumerians as Dumuzid the Shepherd (𒌉𒍣𒉺𒇻|Dumuzid sipad) and to the Canaanites as '''Adon''' (Proto-Hebrew: 𐤀𐤃𐤍), is an ancient Mesopotamian and Levantine deity associated with agriculture and shepherds, who was also the first and primary consort of the goddess Inanna (later known as Ishtar).
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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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.
Emar
Emar, is an archaeological site at Tell Meskene in the Aleppo Governorate of northern Syria.
Enki
Enki (𒀭𒂗𒆠) is the Sumerian god of water, knowledge (gestú), crafts (gašam), and creation (nudimmud), and one of the Anunnaki.
Enkidu
Enkidu (𒂗𒆠𒄭 EN.KI.DU10) was a legendary figure in ancient Mesopotamian mythology, wartime comrade and friend of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk.
Enlil
Enlil, later known as Elil and Ellil, is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated with wind, air, earth, and storms.
Enmesharra
Enmesharra (𒀭𒂗𒈨𒊹𒊏, "Lord of all mes") was a Mesopotamian god associated with the underworld.
Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic from ancient Mesopotamia. An = Anum and epic of Gilgamesh are clay tablets.
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Epithet
An epithet, also a byname, is a descriptive term (word or phrase) commonly accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a real or fictitious person, place, or thing.
Epithets of Inanna
Epithets of Inanna were titles and bynames used to refer to this Mesopotamian goddess and to her Akkadian counterpart Ishtar.
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Ereshkigal
In Mesopotamian mythology, Ereshkigal (𒀭𒊩𒌆𒆠𒃲, lit. "Queen of the Great Earth") was the goddess of Kur, the land of the dead or underworld in Sumerian mythology.
Gatumdug
Gatumdug (dĜa2-tum3-dug3; also romanized as Gatumdu) was a Mesopotamian goddess regarded as the tutelary deity of Lagash and closely associated with its kings.
Gazbaba
Gazbaba, also known as Kazbaba or Kazba, was a Mesopotamian goddess closely associated with Inanna, Nanaya and Kanisurra.
Gibil
Gibil (𒀭𒉈𒄀), also known under the Akkadian name Girra, was a Mesopotamian god associated with fire, both in its positive and negative aspects.
Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh (𒀭𒄑𒂆𒈦|translit.
Gula (goddess)
Gula (Sumerian: "the great") was a Mesopotamian goddess of medicine, portrayed as a divine physician and midwife.
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Gunura
Gunura was a Mesopotamian goddess, best known as a daughter and member of the entourage of the medicine goddess Ninisina.
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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Hadad
Hadad (𐎅𐎄|translit.
Hattusa
Hattusa, also Hattuşa, Ḫattuša, Hattusas, or Hattusha, was the capital of the Hittite Empire in the late Bronze Age during two distinct periods.
Haya (god)
Haya was a Mesopotamian god associated with scribal arts and possibly with grain.
Hendursaga
Hendursaga (Dḫendur-saŋ), also spelled Hendursanga or Endursaga (Dḫendur-saŋ-ŋa2) was a Mesopotamian god.
Henri de Genouillac
Henri Pierre Louis du Verdier de Genouillac, called Abbé Henri de Genouillac, (15 March 1881, Rouen – 20 November 1940, in his clergy house in Villennes-sur-Seine) was a French Roman Catholic priest, epigrapher and archaeologist specializing in Assyriology.
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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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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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Išḫara
Išḫara was a goddess originally worshipped in Ebla and other nearby settlements in the north of modern Syria in the third millennium BCE.
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.
Idlurugu
Idlurugu (Sumerian: i7-lú-ru-gú, also read Ilurugu) or Id (dÍD) was a Mesopotamian god regarded as both a river deity and a divine judge.
Igalim
Igalim (𒀭𒅅𒄋) or Igalimma (𒀭𒅅𒄋𒈠) was a Mesopotamian god from the local pantheon of the state of Lagash.
Inanna
Inanna is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility.
Inshushinak
Inshushinak (also Šušinak, Šušun; Linear Elamite: Insušinak, Cuneiform: dInšušinak) was the tutelary god of the city of Susa in Elam.
Interpretatio graeca
Greek translation, or "interpretation by means of Greek ", refers to the tendency of the ancient Greeks to identify foreign deities with their own gods.
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Iraq
Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.
Ishum
Ishum (Išum; possibly the masculine form of Akkadian išātum, "fire") was a Mesopotamian god of Akkadian origin.
Isin
Isin (modern Arabic: Ishan al-Bahriyat) is an archaeological site in Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate, Iraq which was the location of the Ancient Near East city of Isin, occupied from the late 4th millennium Uruk period up until at least the late 1st millennium BC Neo-Babylonian period.
Jabru
Jabru was a god who according to Mesopotamian god lists was worshiped in Elam.
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.
Kanisurra
Kanisurra (also Gansurra, Ganisurra) was a Mesopotamian goddess who belonged to the entourage of Nanaya.
Kassite deities
Kassite deities were the pantheon of the Kassites (Akkadian: Kaššû, from Kassite Galzu), a group inhabiting parts of modern Iraq (mostly historical Babylonia and the Nuzi area), as well as Iran and Syria, in the second and first millennia BCE.
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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).
Kumarbi
Kumarbi, also known as Kumurwe, Kumarwi and Kumarma, was a Hurrian god.
Laṣ
Laṣ (dLa-aṣ; also romanized as Laz) was a Mesopotamian goddess who was commonly regarded as the wife of Nergal, a god associated with war and the underworld.
Lagamal
Lagamal or Lagamar (Akkadian: "no mercy") was a Mesopotamian deity associated chiefly with Dilbat (modern Tell al-Deylam).
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.
Lahar (god)
Lahar was a Mesopotamian deity associated with flocks of animals, especially sheep.
Lexical lists
The cuneiform lexical lists are a series of ancient Mesopotamian glossaries which preserve the semantics of Sumerograms, their phonetic value and their Akkadian or other language equivalents. An = Anum and lexical lists are clay tablets.
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Lisin
Lisin was a Mesopotamian deity initially regarded as a goddess and addressed as ama, "mother," who later came to be regarded as a god and developed an association with fire.
List of Hurrian deities
The Hurrian pantheon consisted of gods of varied backgrounds, some of them natively Hurrian, while others adopted from other pantheons, for example Eblaite and Mesopotamian.
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List of Mesopotamian deities
Deities in ancient Mesopotamia were almost exclusively anthropomorphic.
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List of Ugaritic deities
The Ugaritic pantheon included deities of local origin, many of whom are also known from Eblaite sources from the third millennium BCE or Amorite ones from the early second millennium BCE, as well as Hurrian and Mesopotamian ones.
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Louvre
The Louvre, or the Louvre Museum, is a national art museum in Paris, France, and one of the most famous museums in the world.
Lugal-irra and Meslamta-ea
Lugal-irra (𒀭𒈗𒄊𒊏) and Meslamta-ea (𒀭𒈩𒇴𒋫𒌓𒁺𒀀) were a pair of Mesopotamian gods who typically appear together in cuneiform texts and were described as the "divine twins" (Maštabba).
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Lugal-Marada
Lugal-Marada (𒀭𒈗𒀫𒁕 dlugal-marad-da) was a Mesopotamian god who served as the tutelary deity of the city of Marad.
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Lugala'abba
Lugala'abba or Lugalabba was a Mesopotamian god associated with the sea, as well as with the underworld.
Lugalbanda
Lugalbanda was a deified Sumerian king of Uruk who, according to various sources of Mesopotamian literature, was the father of Gilgamesh.
Lugaldukuga
Lugaldukuga (Sumerian: "lord of the holy mound") was a Mesopotamian god primarily understood as a theogonic figure.
Mamitu
Mamitu (Mammitum, Mammitu, Mammi) was a Mesopotamian goddess associated with the underworld.
Mandanu
Mandanu or Madanu was a Mesopotamian god associated with justice.
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.
Manzat (goddess)
Manzat (Manzât), also spelled Mazzi'at, Manzi'at and Mazzêt, sometimes known by the Sumerian name Tiranna (dTIR.AN.NA) was a Mesopotamian and Elamite goddess representing the rainbow.
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Marad
Marad (Sumerian: Marda, modern Tell Wannat es-Sadum or Tell as-Sadoum (also Wana-Sedoum), Iraq) was an ancient Near Eastern city.
Marduk
Marduk (Cuneiform: ᵈAMAR.UTU; Sumerian: "calf of the sun; solar calf") is a god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon who eventually rose to power in the First Millennium BC.
Mari, Syria
Mari (Cuneiform:, ma-riki, modern Tell Hariri; تل حريري) was an ancient Semitic city-state in modern-day Syria.
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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Mongoose
A mongoose is a small terrestrial carnivorous mammal belonging to the family Herpestidae.
Muati
Muati was a Mesopotamian god.
Nabu
Nabu (cuneiform: 𒀭𒀝 Nabû, Nəḇo) is the Babylonian patron god of literacy, the rational arts, scribes, and wisdom.
Nanaya
Nanaya (Sumerian, DNA.NA.A; also transcribed as "Nanāy", "Nanaja", "Nanāja", '"Nanāya", or "Nanai"; antiquated transcription: "Nanâ"; in Greek: Ναναια or Νανα; נני, ܢܢܝ) was a Mesopotamian goddess of love closely associated with Inanna.
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.
Narundi
Narundi (dna-ru-ti) or Narunde was an Elamite goddess worshiped in Susa.
Neo-Assyrian Empire
The Neo-Assyrian Empire was the fourth and penultimate stage of ancient Assyrian history.
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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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Nergal
Nergal (Sumerian: dKIŠ.UNU or dGÌR.UNU.GAL;; Aramaic: ܢܸܪܓܲܠ; Nirgal) was a Mesopotamian god worshiped through all periods of Mesopotamian history, from Early Dynastic to Neo-Babylonian times, with a few attestations indicating that his cult survived into the period of Achaemenid domination.
NIN (cuneiform)
The Sumerian word NIN (𒎏), later borrowed into Akkadian, was used to denote a queen or a priestess, and is often translated as "lady".
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Nin-MAR.KI
Nin-MAR.KI was a Mesopotamian goddess.
Ninagal
Ninagal (𒀭𒎏𒀉𒃲) or Ninagala was a Mesopotamian god regarded as a divine smith.
Ninazu
Ninazu (𒀭𒎏𒀀𒋢; "lord healer") was a Mesopotamian god of the underworld.
Nindara
Nindara (𒀭𒊩𒌆𒁯𒀀, Nindar in sources predating the reign of Gudea) was a Mesopotamian god worshiped in the state of Lagash.
Ninegal
Ninegal (also spelled Ninegalla) or Belat Ekalli (Belet-ekalli) was a Mesopotamian goddess associated with palaces.
Nineveh
Nineveh (𒌷𒉌𒉡𒀀, URUNI.NU.A, Ninua; נִינְוֵה, Nīnəwē; نَيْنَوَىٰ, Naynawā; ܢܝܼܢܘܹܐ, Nīnwē), also known in early modern times as Kouyunjik, was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located in the modern-day city of Mosul in northern Iraq.
Ningal
Ningal (Sumerian: "Great Queen"; Akkadian Nikkal) was a Mesopotamian goddess regarded as the wife of the moon god, Nanna/Sin.
Ningirima
Ningirima was a Mesopotamian goddess associated with incantations, attested already in the Early Dynastic period.
Ningishzida
Ningishzida (Sumerian: DNIN.G̃IŠ.ZID.DA, possible meaning "Lord Good Tree") was a Mesopotamian deity of vegetation, the underworld and sometimes war.
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.
Ninimma
Ninimma was a Mesopotamian goddess best known as a courtier of Enlil.
Ninisina
Ninisina (Sumerian: "Mistress of Isin") was a Mesopotamian goddess who served as the tutelary deity of the city of Isin.
Ninkarrak
Ninkarrak (𒀭𒊩𒌆𒋼𒀀𒊏𒀝, dnin-kar-ra-ak) was a goddess of medicine worshiped chiefly in northern Mesopotamia and Syria.
Ninkasi
Ninkasi was the Mesopotamian goddess of beer and brewing.
Ninkilim
The god Ninkilim, inscribed dnin-PEŠ2, is a widely referenced Mesopotamian deity from Sumerian to later Babylonian periods whose minions include wildlife in general and vermin in particular.
Ninlil
Ninlil (DNIN.LÍL; meaning uncertain) was a Mesopotamian goddess regarded as the wife of Enlil.
Ninmada
Ninmada was a name applied to two separate Mesopotamian deities, a god and a goddess.
Ninmug
Ninmug or Ninmuga was a Mesopotamian goddess.
Ninnibru
Ninnibru, also romanized as Nin-Nibru, was a Mesopotamian goddess regarded as the wife of Ninurta.
Ninsianna
Ninsianna (Sumerian: "Red Queen of Heaven") was a Mesopotamian deity considered to be the personification of Venus.
Ninsikila
Ninsikila (or Ninsikil, 𒀭𒎏𒂖) was a Mesopotamian deity regarded as the spouse of Lisin.
Ninsun
Ninsun (also called Ninsumun, cuneiform: dNIN.SUMUN2; Sumerian: Nin-sumun(ak) "lady of the wild cows") was a Mesopotamian goddess.
Nintinugga
Nintinugga (also romanized as Nintinuga) was a Mesopotamian goddess associated with medicine and cleansing.
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.
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.
Nisaba
Nisaba was the Mesopotamian goddess of writing and grain.
Nomad
Nomads are communities without fixed habitation who regularly move to and from areas.
Nuska
Nuska or Nusku, possibly also known as Našuḫ, was a Mesopotamian god best attested as the sukkal (divine vizier) of Enlil.
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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Pabilsaĝ
Pabilsaĝ (𒀭𒉺𒉈𒊕 /pabilsaŋ/; also romanized as Pabilsag) was a Mesopotamian god.
Panigingarra
Paniĝinĝarra (or Paniĝara) was a Mesopotamian god worshiped in Adab.
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Paper size
Paper size standards govern the size of sheets of paper used as writing paper, stationery, cards, and for some printed documents.
Papsukkal
Papsukkal (𒀭𒉽𒈛) was a Mesopotamian god regarded as the sukkal (attendant deity) of Anu and his wife Antu in Seleucid Uruk.
Paul-Alain Beaulieu
Paul-Alain Beaulieu is a Canadian Assyriologist, a Professor of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto.
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Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie
The Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie (RlA), formerly Reallexikon der Assyriologie, is a multi-language (English, German, and French) encyclopedia on the Ancient Near East.
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Saĝkud
Saĝkud was a Mesopotamian god who might have been regarded as a divine tax collector or as a warrior deity.
Sacred language
A sacred language, holy language or liturgical language is a language that is cultivated and used primarily for religious reasons (like Mosque service) by people who speak another, primary language (like Persian, Urdu, Pashtu, Balochi, Sindhi etc.) in their daily lives.
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Sadarnunna
Sadarnunna was a Mesopotamian goddess regarded as the wife of Nuska.
Sarpanit
Zarpanitu (also romanized as Ṣarpānītu) was a Mesopotamian goddess regarded as the spouse of Marduk.
Sebitti
The Sebitti or Sebittu are a group of seven minor war gods in Neo-Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian and especially Assyrian tradition.
Seleucid Empire
The Seleucid Empire (lit) was a Greek power in West Asia during the Hellenistic period.
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Shala
Shala (Šala) was a Mesopotamian goddess of weather and grain and the wife of the weather god Adad.
Shalash
Shalash (Šalaš) was a Syrian goddess best known as the wife of Dagan, the head of the pantheon of the middle Euphrates area.
Shamash
Shamash (Akkadian: šamaš), also known as Utu (Sumerian: dutu "Sun") was the ancient Mesopotamian sun god.
Shullat and Hanish
Shullat (Šûllat) and Hanish (Ḫaniš) were a pair of Mesopotamian gods.
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Shulshaga
Shulshaga (Šulšaga) or Shulsagana (Šulšagana) was a Mesopotamian god.
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.
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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Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet
Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, KLS (5 April 1810 – 5 March 1895) was a British East India Company army officer, politician, and Orientalist, sometimes described as the Father of Assyriology.
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Subartu
The land of Subartu (Akkadian Šubartum/Subartum/ina Šú-ba-ri, Assyrian mât Šubarri) or Subar (Sumerian Su-bir4/Subar/Šubur, Ugaritic 𐎘𐎁𐎗 ṯbr) is mentioned in Bronze Age literature.
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.
Sumer
Sumer is the earliest known civilization, located in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now south-central Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC.
Sumerian language
Sumerian (Also written 𒅴𒄀 eme-gi.ePSD2 entry for emegir.|'native language'|) was the language of ancient Sumer.
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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.
Tashmetum
Tashmetum (dtaš-me-tum, Tašmētum) was a Mesopotamian goddess.
Teshub
Teshub was the Hurrian weather god, as well as the head of the Hurrian pantheon.
Theology
Theology is the study of religious belief from a religious perspective, with a focus on the nature of divinity.
Theonym
A theonym (from Greek theos (Θεός), "god", attached to onoma (ὄνομα), "name") is a proper name of a deity.
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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Tiglath-Pileser I
Tiglath-Pileser I (from the Hebraic form of 𒆪𒋾𒀀𒂍𒈗𒊏|translit.
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Tishpak
Tishpak (Tišpak) was a Mesopotamian god associated with the ancient city Eshnunna and its sphere of influence, located in the Diyala area of Iraq.
Uṣur-amāssu
Uṣur-amāssu (also spelled Uṣur-awāssu or Uṣur-amāssa) was a Mesopotamian deity.
Udug
The udug, later known in Akkadian as the utukku, were an ambiguous class of demons from ancient Mesopotamian mythology.
Ugarit
Ugarit (𐎜𐎂𐎗𐎚, ʾUgarītu) was an ancient port city in northern Syria about 10 kilometers north of modern Latakia.
Ugur (god)
Ugur was a Mesopotamian god associated with war and death, originally regarded as an attendant deity (sukkal) of Nergal.
Ur
Ur was an important Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar (mound of bitumen) in Dhi Qar Governorate, southern Iraq.
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Urash (god)
Urash (Uraš) was a Mesopotamian god who was the tutelary deity of Dilbat.
Uruk
Uruk, known today as Warka, was an ancient city in the Near East, located east of the current bed of the Euphrates River, on an ancient, now-dried channel of the river.
Uttu
Uttu was a Mesopotamian goddess associated with weaving.
Weidner god list
Weidner god list is the conventional name of one of the known ancient Mesopotamian lists of deities, originally compiled by ancient scribes in the late third millennium BCE, with the oldest known copy dated to the Ur III or the Isin-Larsa period. An = Anum and Weidner god list are clay tablets and Mesopotamian literature.
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Wer (god)
Wer (Wēr), also known as Mer, Ber and Iluwer was a weather god worshiped in parts of Mesopotamia and ancient Syria.
Wilfred G. Lambert
Wilfred George Lambert FBA (26 February 1926 – 9 November 2011) was a historian and archaeologist, a specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology.
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William W. Hallo
William Wolfgang Hallo (March 9, 1928 – March, 27, 2015, Yale News, March 30, 2015. Retrieved 25 June 2017., The New Haven Register, Mar. 29, 2015. Retrieved 25 June 2017.) was professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature and curator of the Babylonian collection at Yale University.
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Yale Babylonian Collection
Comprising some 45,000 items, the Yale Babylonian Collection is an independent branch of the Yale University Library housed on the Yale University campus in Sterling Memorial Library at New Haven, Connecticut, United States. An = Anum and Yale Babylonian Collection are clay tablets.
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Yale University
Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Zababa
Zababa (Sumerian: 𒀭𒍝𒂷𒂷 dza-ba4-ba4) was the tutelary deity of the city of Kish in ancient Mesopotamia.
See also
Mesopotamian literature
- Akkadian literature
- An = Anum
- Assyrian statue (BM 124963)
- Complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir
- Library of Ashurbanipal
- Mesopotamian myths
- Nuzi texts
- Summa izbu
- Underworld Vision of an Assyrian Prince
- Urra=hubullu
- Weidner god list
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_=_Anum
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