Julia Asher-Greve and Joan Goodnick Westenholz 2013

Goddesses in Context: On Divine Powers, Roles, Relationships and Gender in Mesopotamian Textual and Visual Sources
OBO 259,
Fribourg, Göttingen: Academic Press, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht.
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The present publication is divided into five chapters about gender of divinities: 1) “Gender Theory and Issues” (gender categories, changing gender, marginalization of goddesses); 2) “Plethora of Female Deities” (processes of syncretism, fusion, fission and mutation; first stage of profusion followed by a second stage of recession and by a third one of conflation; general trends); 3) “Facets of Change” (the case of Ninḫursa&#285a and mythological messages); 4) “Images” (image and religion; visualizing deities; statues, terra-cotta figurines, seals and their role in visualization; power of presence); 5) “Epilogue” (summary of the previous chapters).

Urkesh is specifically referred to on p. 71, n. 285, with the mention of the Hurrian inscription of Ti&#353atal (from Tell Mozan) which quotes ^dNIN-na-gar₃^ki among other Hurrian deities (see Wilhelm 1998, in Mozan Studies 3, pp. 117-143).