Nabarbi
Nabarbi was a Hurrian goddess whose name was derived from the place name Nawar. She has been identified with Belet Nagar by some scholars, though the relationship between the two goddesses and their associated place names remains debated. She is counted among deities received by Hurrians from preexisting Syrian pantheons.
↻ synthesized from 5 sources
When
- First attested
- 3000 BCE
- Attested period
- -3000 – 0
- Historical notes
- Attested in the pantheons of areas where the Hurrian language was in use.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Ḫabūrītum, Ninhursag, Shalash, Ḫepat, Šarruma, Allanzu, Kunzišalli, Takitu, Hutena, Hutellura, Allani, Damkina, Nikkal, Ayu-Ikalti, Ninatta, Kulitta, Adamma, Kubaba, Hašuntarḫi, Uršui-Iškalli, Tiyabenti, Aya, Mušuni, Ḫašulatḫi, Šauška, Kušuḫ, Teššub, Šauška, dU.GUR, Kumarbi, Nupatik, Ugur, Aštabi, Ishum, Hebat, Alḫe, Shaushka of Tameninga, dNIN.URTA, Ḫiriḫibi, Inanna, Išḫara, Nergal, Resheph, Dagan, Allatum, Annunitum
- syncretized with
- Belet Nagar
- allied with
- Shuwala
- consort of
- Shuwaliyat
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Alfonso Archi assumes that Belet Nagar was identified with the Hurrian Nabarbi, though he thinks Nawar, the place name from which the latter name was derived, had to be a different place from Nagar.”
#9221 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Šauška (alongside her servants Ninatta and Kulitta), Nabarbi, Shuwala, Adamma... Takitu, Hutena and Hutellura, Allani, Ishara, Nabarbi, Shalash”
#9663 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“similar to Teššub, Šauška, Kumarbi or Nabarbi. He appears in theophoric names from both eastern and western Hurrian cities. Examples include Eḫlip-Kušuḫ (“Kušuḫ saves”), attested in Mari (Tell Hariri) and Tigunani, Arip-Kušuḫ (“Kušuḫ gave”), known from the former of these sites, and Ḫazip-Kušuḫ”
#19294 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“In offering lists (kaluti) of Hebat and her circle she appears between Nabarbi and Aya.”
#37286 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Examples of other analogously structured Hurrian theonyms include Nabarbi (“she of Nawar”) and possibly Ḫiriḫibi (“he of [the mountain] Ḫiriḫi”).”
#39099 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001