Uṣur-amāssu
Uṣur-amāssu is a deity from Uruk. Joan Goodnick Westenholz proposed that she and Urkayītu were replaced by Šarrāḫītu and Belet-Seri in the local pantheon after the year 484 BCE.
↻ synthesized from 2 sources
When
- First attested
- 1000 BCE
- Attested period
- -1000 – 2021
- Historical notes
- Replaced by Šarrāḫītu and Belet-Seri in the local pantheon after the year 484 BCE.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Bēltu-ša-Rēš, Belet-Seri, Adad-milki, Šarrāḫītu, Urkayītu, Išḫara, Nanaya, Gazbaba, Inanna, Geshtinanna, Ištar
- allied with
- Kanisurra
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Uruk, replaced Urkayītu and Uṣur-amāssu in the local pantheon. Belet-Seri had her own temple, which was apparently surrounded by an orchard. According to documents from the Seleucid period, it bore the name é.gal edin, "palace of the steppe."”
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“In the first millennium BCE Kanisurra is attested on a kudurru (boundary stone) from the reign of Marduk-zakir-shumi I which mentions a certain Ibni-Ishtar, who held various positions among the clergy of Ishtar, Nanaya and Uṣur-amāssu. A gate, a street and a city quarter named after her existed in Uruk.”
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