Ištar from Arbela

The Ištar of Arbela is an Assyrian goddess with perhaps partly Hurrian roots. She is depicted as armed, standing on a lion, dressed in a knee-length skirt and long cloak. On Til Barsip's stele she carries two bows and a quiver and a sword. She wears a crown of horns , which is crowned by her star symbol and holds a lion by a kind of reins. It is similar to the Hurrian Šawuška . The goddesses Ninatta and Kulitta are assigned to her. Ninatta and Kulitta are depicted on a relief in Yazılıkaya and identified with an inscription. There they wear a long pleated skirt.

As an inscription from Ashurbanipal shows, the festival of the Istar of Arbela took place in the month of Ab.

literature

G. Beckmann: Ishtar of Nineveh reconsidered . In: Journal of cuneiform studies 50, 1998, ISSN 0022-0256 , pp. 1-10.

Individual evidence

↑ Ursula Seidl : The Urartian Istar-Sawuska . In: Altan Çilingiroǧlu / G. Darbyshire (Ed.), Anatolian Iron Ages 5, Proceedings of the 5th Anatolian Iron Ages Colloquium Van, 6.-10. August 2001 . British Institute of Archeology at Ankara Monograph 3 (Ankara 2005) p. 169
↑ HF Russell, Shalmaneser's Campaign to Urarṭu in 856 BC and the historical geography of Eastern Anatolia according to the Assyrian sources . In: Anatolian Studies 34, 1984, p. 178

[1] Ursula Seidl : The Urartian Istar-Sawuska . In: Altan Çilingiroǧlu / G. Darbyshire (Ed.), Anatolian Iron Ages 5, Proceedings of the 5th Anatolian Iron Ages Colloquium Van, 6.-10. August 2001 . British Institute of Archeology at Ankara Monograph 3 (Ankara 2005) p. 169

[2] HF Russell, Shalmaneser's Campaign to Urarṭu in 856 BC and the historical geography of Eastern Anatolia according to the Assyrian sources . In: Anatolian Studies 34, 1984, p. 178