Uršue

Uršue Iškalli was a Hurrian goddess who belongs to the Ḫebat circle . The rock relief 57 with the inscription (DEUS) u + ra / i-su in the Hittite shrine Yazılıkaya depicts this goddess.

Little can be said about Uršue. In the Hurrian ritual of the Old Gods, she is called “the witness of the female goddesses”, while Išḫašḫarna is the witness of the male gods. Its name comes from Akkadian and can be interpreted as "Great Temple ( akk . Ešgallu ) of the city of Uršu (possibly near Gaziantep )". How and when the Hurrian goddess emerged from this remains unclear.

Individual evidence

^ Alfonso Archi: The West Hurrian Pantheon and Its Background. In: Billie Jean Collins, Piotr Michalowski (Eds.): Beyond Hatti. A tribute to Gary Beckman. Lockwood Press, Atlanta 2013, ISBN 978-1-937040-11-6 .
^ Alfonso Archi: The West Hurrian Pantheon and Its Background. In: Billie Jean Collins, Piotr Michalowski (Eds.): Beyond Hatti. A tribute to Gary Beckman. Lockwood Press, Atlanta 2013, ISBN 978-1-937040-11-6 , p. 13.

literature

Volkert Haas : History of the Hittite religion (= Handbook of Oriental Studies . Volume 1.15). Brill, Leiden 1994, ISBN 978-9-004-09799-5 .
M. Giorgieri: Uršue / i. In: Michael P. Streck (ed.): Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Aräologie . Volume 14, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2014-2016, ISBN 978-3-11-034659-6 , p. 439.

[1] Alfonso Archi: The West Hurrian Pantheon and Its Background. In: Billie Jean Collins, Piotr Michalowski (Eds.): Beyond Hatti. A tribute to Gary Beckman. Lockwood Press, Atlanta 2013, ISBN 978-1-937040-11-6 .

[2] Alfonso Archi: The West Hurrian Pantheon and Its Background. In: Billie Jean Collins, Piotr Michalowski (Eds.): Beyond Hatti. A tribute to Gary Beckman. Lockwood Press, Atlanta 2013, ISBN 978-1-937040-11-6 , p. 13.