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In the Old Assyrian Period, both the city and the god were commonly spelled as A-šùr. The god Ashur was spelled as d A-šur, A-šur, d A-šùr or A-šùr, and from the comparative data there seems to be a bigger general reluctance to use the divine determinative in Anatolia in comparison to data from the city of Assur itself. [2]
All modern lists of Assyrian kings generally follow the Assyrian King List, a list kept and developed by the ancient Assyrians themselves over the course of several centuries. Though some parts of the list are probably fictional, the list accords well with Hittite , Babylonian and ancient Egyptian king lists and with the archaeological record ...
A fragmentary late neo-Assyrian god list appears to consider her and another figure regarded as the wife of Anu, Urash, as one and the same, and refers to "Ki-Urash." [403] Kittum: Bad-Tibira, Rahabu [404] Kittum was a daughter of Utu and Sherida. [405] Her name means "Truth". [405] Kus: Kus is a god of herdsmen referenced in the Theogony of ...
A war god in mythology associated with war, combat, or bloodshed. They occur commonly in polytheistic religions. Unlike most gods and goddesses in polytheistic religions, monotheistic deities have traditionally been portrayed in their mythologies as commanding war in order to spread religion.
Ninurta (Sumerian: 𒀭𒊩𒌆𒅁: D NIN. URTA, possible meaning "Lord [of] Barley"), [1] also known as Ninĝirsu (Sumerian: 𒀭𒎏𒄈𒋢: D NIN. ĜIR 2.SU, meaning "Lord [of] Girsu"), [2] is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated with farming, healing, hunting, law, scribes, and war who was first worshipped in early Sumer.
The old temple dedicated to the national god of the Assyrians Assur was rebuilt, as were temples to other Assyrian gods. Assyrian Eastern Aramaic inscriptions from the remains of Ashur have yielded insight into the Parthian-era city with Assyria having its own Mesopotamian Aramaic Syriac script, which was the same in terms of grammar and syntax ...
Ashurbanipal [a] (Neo-Assyrian Akkadian: 𒀸𒋩𒆕𒀀, romanized: Aššur-bāni-apli, [10] [b] meaning "Ashur is the creator of the heir") [3] [12] — or Osnappar in Aramaic — was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 669 BC to his death in 631.
Nergal (Sumerian: 𒀭𒄊𒀕𒃲 [1] d KIŠ.UNU or d GÌR.UNU.GAL; [2] Hebrew: נֵרְגַל, Modern: Nergal, Tiberian: Nērgal; Aramaic: ܢܸܪܓܲܠ; [3] Latin: 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.