Ḫabūrītum

Ḫabūrītum ( Sumerian ^D Ḫa-bū-rī-tum, "that of Ḫabur") was the river goddess of the Habur River in the pantheon of the Ur III period .

It appears in texts in the near Nippur located village Puzriš-Dagan were found. From the texts it emerges that in addition to Dagān , Malkum , Išḫara or Inanna, animal sacrifices, namely a fattened sheep, were offered to her. It is assumed that their cult came in the course of the spread of the Dagān cult from the area of the central Euphrates , into which the Habur flows, to the south of it Nippur.

literature

Dietz-Otto Edzard : Ḫabūrītum. In: Dietz Otto Edzard (Hrsg.): Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Aräologie . Volume 4, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1972–1975, ISBN 3-11-006772-2 , p. 29.

Remarks

↑ Cf. Lluís Feliu: The God Dagan in Bronze Age Syria (= Culture and History of the Ancient Near East. Volume 19). Brill, Leiden 2003, ISBN 9-004-13158-2 , p. 49 f .; 55.
^ Alfonso Archi : Formation of the West Hurrian Pantheon . In: Hans Gustav Güterbock , K. Aslihan Yener , Harry A. Hoffner , Simrit Dhesi: Recent Developments in Hittite Archeology and History . Eisenbrauns, Warsaw 2002, ISBN 1-57506-053-1 , p. 29 f.

[1] Cf. Lluís Feliu: The God Dagan in Bronze Age Syria (= Culture and History of the Ancient Near East. Volume 19). Brill, Leiden 2003, ISBN 9-004-13158-2 , p. 49 f .; 55.

[2] Alfonso Archi : Formation of the West Hurrian Pantheon . In: Hans Gustav Güterbock , K. Aslihan Yener , Harry A. Hoffner , Simrit Dhesi: Recent Developments in Hittite Archeology and History . Eisenbrauns, Warsaw 2002, ISBN 1-57506-053-1 , p. 29 f.