Anunit
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Anunit is a personification of the Ištar idea and later became the primary goddess worshipped at Sippar after Ištar’s cult was superseded. She is described as another manifestation of the Ištar concept, with a shrine at Sippar.
When
- First attested
- 2000 BCE
- Attested period
- -2000 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Appears in Babylonian records after the early Ištar cult, likely from the early 2nd millennium BCE.
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Sources
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Source passages
“The Ištar worship of Agade was later superseded by that of the goddess Anunit, another personification of the Ištar idea, whose shrine was at Sippar.”
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