Nusku

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Nusku (also DINGIR En-Šadibdib or DINGIR Umun-Šazedib ) is a Sumerian god. Nusku was originally considered the son of the god Enlil and was his companion and messenger. In Akkadian texts, Girra / Gibil , son of Anu , is the god of light and fire . His wife is Šalaš . One of its symbols was the oil lamp. He was considered a partner of Šamaš and was equated in Neo-Assyrian times as the son of the main god Sin with Nusku of Harran . Nusku owned a temple in Nippur , the lists of which are partly known (CBS 8550, CBS 14217).

As a theophoric part of the name, nusku is rare. For example, a Nusku-taqišu-bullit from Borsippa in the Neo-Babylonian period and a namesake from the Kassite period is documented.

literature

  • Helmut Freydank u. a .: Lexicon of the Old Orient. Egypt * India * China * Western Asia , VMA-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1997 ISBN 3-928127-40-3
  • Brigitte Groneberg : The gods of the Mesopotamia. Cults, myths, epics. Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf et al. 2004, ISBN 3-7608-2306-8 .
  • Sebastian Hageneuer : Art. Nusku . Iconography of Deities and Demons (electronic pre-publication), 2008.
  • R. Marcel Sigrist, Offrandes dans le temple de Nusku à Nippur. Journal of Cuneiform Studies 29/3, 1977, 169-183.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ R. Marcel Sigrist, Offrandes dans le temple de Nusku à Nippur. Journal of Cuneiform Studies 29/3, 1977, 169-183
  2. ↑ A. Kirk Grayson, Literary Letters from Deities and Diviners, more Fragments. Journal of the American Oriental Society 103/1 (Studies in Literature from the Ancient Near East by Members of the American Oriental Society, dedicated to Samuel Noah Kramer), 1983, 146
  3. ↑ A. Kirk Grayson, Literary Letters from Deities and Diviners, more Fragments. Journal of the American Oriental Society 103/1 (Studies in Literature from the Ancient Near East by Members of the American Oriental Society, dedicated to Samuel Noah Kramer), 1983, 145