Ashur
Ashur is a deity who occurs alongside Itūr-Mēr and Enlil. Shamshi-Adad dedicated a throne to Itūr-Mēr and in an accompanying inscription credited him for granting him the right to rule it, and the local god instead occurs alongside Enlil and Ashur.
↻ synthesized from 4 sources
When
- First attested
- 2500 BCE
- Attested period
- -2500 – 0
- Historical notes
- Neo-Assyrian period.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Belet Ekallim, Addu, Yakrub-El, uridu-genies, lamassatum-genies, Ea, Nabu, Enmesharra, Inanna of Kish, Ninnibru, Nin-UM, Shamash, Annunitum, Dagan, Ninhursag, Shalash, Itūr-Mēr, Tiamat, Enlil, Bau, Nergal, Anu, Ningirsu, Ugur, Ninisina, Pabilsag, Papsukkal, An, Inanna, Ištar
- enemy of
- Marduk
- consort of
- Ninlil
Mentioned by
- Shamash
- Annunitum
- Dagan
- Ninhursag
- Shalash
- Itūr-Mēr
- Tiamat
- Enlil
- Bau
- Nergal
- Anu
- Ningirsu
- Ugur
- Ninisina
- Pabilsag
- Papsukkal
and 3 more
Sources
Source passages
“and the local god instead occurs alongside Enlil and Ashur.”
#11749 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“the Assyrian edition of the Enuma Elish replaced Marduk with the god Ashur (spelled as Anshar) and Babylon with Assur (spelled as Baltil). Other texts referencing Marduk were also adapted and changed to fit Ashur instead”
#12012 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“In Assyria during the reign of Sennacherib Zababa started to be considered a son of Ashur instead...it is an example of assigning Enlil's family members to him to strengthen his new identity as the 'Assyrian Enlil'”
#34076 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“During the reign of the Assyrian king Assurbanipal, Ishtar rose to become the most important and widely venerated deity in the Assyrian pantheon, surpassing even the Assyrian national god Ashur.”
#36558 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001