Ninsianna

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Ninsianna ( d Nin-si 4th an-na, d Nin-si-an-na), the Ištar of the star ( d U.DAR mul) or the "rust-red mistress of the sky", is an old Babylonian goddess.

She is probably the wife of Kapta , the "sublime one of heaven" ( d mah.di. [an] .na). On a clay tablet from Ur (nos. 140, 1, 10) she is called the "pure and exalted judge". Usually she is dressed in a falbel robe. She is also represented on cylinder seals as the goddess of war, with a curved sword and a lion-headed club. Ninsianna usually wears a star on the crown of her horns .

In a prayer from Tell-ed-Dēr , Ninisanna is invoked as the deity of the morning star, however, as the male deity. Among other things, Ninsianna is invoked in a prayer by the ruler Ur-Nanše , in which he complains that she has forgotten him and that he is afflicted with distress. The Venus tablets of Ammi-ṣaduqa describe the rise and fall of Ninsianna, i.e. the morning Venus , and describe the respective fore-meaning, e.g. For example : in the month of ulul , on the 24th day, Ninsianna appears in the west, "the heart of the country is happy".

Ninsianna is also documented as a theophoric part of the name, for example with the scribe Lu-Ninsianna in the Old Babylonian Sippar or Awīl-Ninsianna in a letter from also Old Babylonian times.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ira M. Price, The Relation of certain Gods to Equity and Justice in Early Babylonia. Journal of the American Oriental Society 52/2, 1932, 176
  2. ↑ PRS Moorey; OR Gurney, Ancient near Eastern Seals at Charterhouse. Iraq 35/1, 1973, 74 (Seal No. 11)
  3. ↑ Baghdader Mitteilungen 27, 1996, 317
  4. ↑ Erica Reiner, The Uses of Astrology. Journal of the American Oriental Society 105/4, 1985, 591
  5. ↑ Benjamin Read Foster, From distant days: myths, tales, and poetry of ancient Mesopotamia. Bethesda, CDL Press 1995, 294
  6. ^ WF Leemans, Old Babylonian Letters and Economic History, a review article with a Digression on foreign Trade. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 11/2, 1968, 172
  7. ^ R. Frankena, Old Babylonian Letters in Transcription and Translation, Vol. 3, Letters from the Leiden Collection. Brill, Leiden 1968, 29; LB1871