Annunitum

deity earth Mesopotamian single tradition · 7

Annunitum is a foreign or minor deity who was among those venerated by queen Shulgi-simti, one of Shulgi's wives, during the Ur III period.

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When

First attested
3000 BCE
Attested period
-3000 – 0
Historical notes
Venerated by queen Shulgi-simti during Ur III period.

Relationships

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Sources

Source passages

“The queen Shulgi-simti, one of Shulgi's wives, seemed to be a devotee of a number of foreign or minor deities, including Belet Nagar, Išḫara, Allatum, Annunitum, Nanaya, Belet-Šuḫnir and Belet-Terraban.”

#9213 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“A late Assyrian version of the so-called Cuthean Legend of Naram-Sin might mention Ilaba after Ishtar and before Zababa, Annunitum, the pair Shullat and Hanish and Shamash among the deities who were the target of the eponymous king's oracular inquiry before a battle.”

#11740 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“He received six sheep during it, the same number as other major deities, Addu, Annunitum, Belet Ekallim, Dagan, Ea, Nergal, Ninhursag (possibly to be understood as a stand-in for Dagan's wife Shalash in texts from Mari) and Shamash.”

#11750 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Ishtar and Annunitum (who in Sippar functioned as a separate goddess, rather than an epithet) were depicted similarly.”

#15764 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“There are also records of offerings being made to her alongside Inanna, Ninegal and Annunitum.”

#37152 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001