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Nisaba

Nisaba was the Mesopotamian goddess of writing and grain. She is one of the oldest Sumerian deities attested in writing, and remained prominent through many periods of Mesopotamian history. She was commonly worshiped by scribes, and numerous Sumerian texts end with the doxology "praise to Nisaba" as a result. She declined after the Old Babylonian period…

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Affiliation
The court of Enlil
Babylonian
Nabu
Children
Sud (Ninlil)
Consort
Ḫaya
Major cult center
Eresh, later Nippur
Other names
Nanibgal, Nunbarshegunu

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Nisaba

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related to Name · 32
Nisaba → Akkadian, Amorite, Another, Anubanini, Assyriologists, Eresh, Erridupizir, Furthermore, Gutian, Gutians, However, Iddin-Sin, It, KA-Nišba, Lady, Lambert, Lullubum, Mari, Miguel Civil, NAGA
related to Nisaba and Nabu · 25
Nisaba → Asher-Greve, Babylon, BCE, Dilbat, Elam, Emar, However, In, Julia, Kassite, Kish, Lagaba, Mari, Mesopotamia, Mesopotamian, Nabu, Nabu’s, Nippur, Old Babylonian, Similar
related to Worship · 23
Nisaba → Akkad, Babylon, Early Dynastic, Eresh, Ezina, Inanna, It, Its, Lagash, Lugalzagesi, Nanshe, Naram-Sin, Nippur, Old Babylonian, She, Shuruppak, Sin-Muballit, Umma, Ur III, Uruk
related to Family and court · 21
Nisaba → Aya, Compared, Damkina, Enki, Enlil's, Haia, Haya, He, In, Ishkur, Kabta, Lugalbanda, Ninlil, Ninsianna, Ninsun, Nisaba's, Shala, Shamash, Shuruppak, Sud
related to Functions · 20
Nisaba → Bau, Due, Eleanor Robson, Electronic Text Corpus, Geshtinanna, However, In, Inanna, It, Lambert, Manungal, Ninisina, Ninshubur, Piotr Michalowski, Robson, She, Sumerian, Sumerian Literature, Various, Wilfred
related to dNISABA as logographic writing of other deities' names · 16
Nisaba → According, Alfonso Archi, Dagan, Dagan's, Enlil, Halab, Hittite, Hurrian, In, Kumarbi, Kumarbi's, Nisaba's, Syrian, The, Ugarit, Ugaritic
related to Unicode for the cuneiform sign NAGA · 14
Nisaba → AN, Borger, DALḪAMUN4, DALḪAMUN5, DALḪAMUN7, NAGA, NANIBGAL, NIDABA, NÁNIBGAL, NÍDABA, NÍSABA, TEME, The, Unicode
related to Association with other deities · 12
Nisaba → As, Ashnan, Enlil, Ezina, In, It, Kusu, Lagash, Ninimma, Nippur, Syncretic, The
related to Mythology · 12
Nisaba → According, Eleanor Robson, Electronic Text Corpus, Enki, Enlil's, In, It, Kesh, Kesh Temple Hymn, Many, Sumerian Literature, World Order
related to Iconography · 9
Nisaba → Akkadian, Bau, Early Dynastic, For, Girsu, It, Kathleen, Maxwell-Hyslop, Pergamon Museum

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name texts writing goddess also enlil nabu known regarded god deity sumerian deities sud attested though goddesses naga grain associated

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
NisabaAffiliationThe court of Enlil1.00infobox
NisabaBabylonianNabu1.00infobox
NisabaChildrenSud (Ninlil)1.00infobox
NisabaConsortḪaya1.00infobox
NisabaMajor cult centerEresh, later Nippur1.00infobox
NisabaOther namesNanibgal, Nunbarshegunu1.00infobox
NisabaParentsUrash and Anu1.00infobox
NisabaParentsUrash and Ea (identified with Irḫan)1.00infobox
NisabaParentsEnlil (and an unknown mother)1.00infobox
NisabaSymbollapis lazuli tablet, golden stylus1.00infobox
Urinstance ofand there is little to no evidence of it from cities0.80text
Nippurinstance ofand there is little to no evidence of it from cities0.80text

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