Suqamuna

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Šuqamuna ( d Šu-qa-mu-na) was the Kassite god of war . His wife was Šumalija , they are "a loving couple". Šuqamuna was equated with the Babylonian gods Nergal and Nusku , in other inscriptions he is named together with the light god Nusku. Its symbol is the club. Attempts have also been made to equate ṯkmn , the Ugaritic moon god, with Šuqamuna.

Šuqamuna was considered the ancestor of the royal family. In an inscription Agum Kakrime , the second ruler of the dynasty, calls himself “Son of Uršig-urumaš , pure seed of Šuqamuna, instituted by Anu and Enlil , Ea and Marduk , Sin and Šamaš , the strong man of warlike Ištar ”.

Šuqamuna and Šumalija were 'the gods of the king' or "the gods of the king and the royal house". Another kudurru Marduk-apla-iddina calls them "the awesome gods who consolidate the scepter, throne and reign". Kurigalzu calls her "the king's god and patron goddess of the king ( il šarri u 3 d lamassu šarri ). According to an inscription by Kurigalzu III , Šuqamuna and Šumalija participated in the king's coronation in Babylon.

Šuqamuna is also documented from Namar in the Zagros, Nuzi , Dēr , Ugarit , and Ḫattuša .

literature

  • K. Balkan, Kassite Studies. 1. The language of the Kassites (AOS 37). New Haven 1954.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theophilus G. Pinches, The Language of the Kassites. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1917, 106
  2. Sebastian Hageneuer : Art. Nusku , Iconography of Deities and Demons (electronic pre-publication), 2008.
  3. ^ Frank M. Cross, Jr., An inscribed Seal from Balâtah (Shechem). Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 167, 1962, 14
  4. ^ André Caquot, Nouveaux documents ougaritiens. Syria 46 / 3-4, 1969, 264
  5. Peter Stein: The Central and New Babylonian King Inscriptions up to the end of the Assyrian rule. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 3-447-04318-0 , p. 151
  6. kudurru from the time of Meli-Sipak , BKI 103 = BBS 3; Geeta De Clercq, The goddess Ninegal / Bēlet-ekallim according to the ancient oriental sources of the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC Chr., Diss. Würzburg 2003, 110; online ( Memento from June 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  7. kudurru des Marduk-apla-iddina , Geeta De Clercq, The Goddess Ninegal / Bēlet-ekallim according to the ancient oriental sources of the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC Chr., Diss. Würzburg 2003, 110; online ( Memento from June 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  8. Geeta De Clercq, The Goddess Ninegal / Bēlet-ekallim according to the ancient oriental sources of the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC Chr., Diss. Würzburg 2003, 111; online ( Memento from June 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  9. Geeta De Clercq, The Goddess Ninegal / Bēlet-ekallim according to the ancient oriental sources of the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC. Chr., Diss. Würzburg 2003, 114; online ( Memento from June 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )