Hanish

deity sky Mesopotamian single tradition · 2

Hanish is one of the deities Naram-Sin reports the defeat of the rebels to. The other deities are Ishtar, Ilaba, Shullat, Shamash, and Umshu.

↻ synthesized from 2 sources

When

First attested
2300 BCE
Attested period
-2300 – 0
Historical notes
Attested in a text describing a rebellion against Naram-Sin.

Relationships

sibling of
Shullat
allied with
Shullat

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Sources

Source passages

“A fictitious letter attributed to Sargon in ancient Mesopotamian scholarship in which he summons his allies for a campaign against the city of Purushanda, located in Anatolia, implores them to respond to the call of Shamash, Ilaba, Zababa and Hanish, who urge them to partake.”

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“The text KAR 142, a list of various heptads, lists them alongside five further pairs of such twin deities...including...Shullat and Hanish, Šarur and Šargaz”

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