Alfonso Archi 2013

“;The West Hurrian Pantheon and its Background,”;
in Billie J. Collins and Piotr Michalowski (eds.), Beyond Hatti. A Tribute to gary Beckman, Atlanta: Lockwood Press, pp. 1-21.
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The present contribution offers an overview on the Hurrian pantheon as it can be reconstructed on the basis of Hurro-Huttite mythological texts, and other various documentation (such as texts from Nuzi, Alalakh, Tell Leilan, Ebla, Ugarit, and Amarna). Moreover, Sumero-Akkadian influnce on religion is investigated, together with the use of epithets to determine specific divinities.

Urkesh is specifically quoted on pp. 4 (mentioning Tiš-atal, Atal-šen, and Tupkiš), 5 (about the title endan), and 7 (on Kumarbi); particularly noterworthy is the mention of Urkesh on p. 8, note 43, reporting G. Buccellati’s suggestion about the possible reading of ^dKIŠ.GAL/^dKIŠ.UNU.GAL as ‘Kumarbi’: “;The name is written ^dKIŠ.GAL in Tišatal’s inscription, ^dKIŠ.UNU.GAL in that by Atal-šen, see recently Wilhelm, “;Die Inschrift des Tišatal von Urkeš,”; 124-25. Giorgio Buccellati (review of La civiltà dei Hurriti. La Parola del Passato 55. WO 34 [2004] 212) has suggested that this logogram should be red Kumarbi. In favor of the identification with Nergal is the presence of ^dU.GUR (who was also the major god at Hayaša) in later documents, Haas, Geschichte der hethitischen Religion, 367-68”;.