Šala (deity)
Šala is a Sumerian , Babylonian , Assyrian, and Hurrian goddess. She was considered the wife of Adad , Dagān or Nusku , in the Hurrian area also of Kumarbi . It sometimes bears the epithet ša šadî , which, according to Klengel, could indicate a northern origin. According to MUL.APIN , Šala is the goddess of the zodiac sign Virgo , the furrow (AB.SIN).
She was invoked as an oath deity in Neo-Assyrian vassal treaties , for example in the Akitu treaty (VAT 11449), where she is listed directly after Adad. In Aššur she was venerated together with Nisaba and Ḫabiru in the Adad temple (KAV 42 II 8-11).
Although not often, Šala has been handed down as a theophoric part of the name, as in Ipiq-Šala from Sippar during the reign of Samsu-ditana .
Individual evidence
- ^ Stephanie Dalley: Old Babylonian Greetings Formulas and the Iltani Archive from Rimah. In: Journal of Cuneiform Studies 5/2, 1973, p. 87.
- ↑ Horst Klengel: The weather god of Halab. In: Journal of Cuneiform Studies 19/3, 1965, p. 93.
- ↑ VAT = Vorderasiatisches Museum, panel 11449; Simo Parpola: Neo-Assyrian Treaties from the Royal Archives of Nineveh. In: Journal of Cuneiform Studies 39/2, 1987, p. 179.
- ↑ KAV = Otto Schröder : cuneiform texts from Assur with various contents (= scientific publications of the German Orient Society. Volume 35). Leipzig 1920; Horst Klengel: The weather god of Halab. In: Journal of Cuneiform Studies 19/3, 1965, note 60.
- ^ Albrecht Goetze : Old Babylonian Documents from Sippar in the Collection of the Catholic University of America. In: Journal of Cuneiform Studies 11/1, 1957, p. 30.