Die Wettergottgestalten Mesopotamiens und Nordsyriens im Zeitalter der Keilschriftkulturen. Materialien und Studien nach den schriftlichen Quellen.
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The author collects in this volume many data from ancient cuneiform sources related to Mesopotamian deities.
Chapter 1 describes the modern classification of the various types of gods, analysing their formal and functional entity and comparing the ancient and the modern perspective on divinities.
Chapter 2 focuses on the modern systematic classification of Mesopotamian gods according to the ancient lists of gods.
Chapter 3 discusses the figure of the Semitic god Hadda as he is described in ancient sources and according to his iconographical and statuary depictions, describing his main places of worshipping.
Chapter 4 displays an analysis of the Sumerian god Iškur, streaming from Ur III period’s sources, describing his main worshipping places (Karkar, Girsu, Umma, Nippur, Ur, and Uruk), presenting a list of the main rituals performed for him, retracing the composition of his own divine family, and discussong the interpretation of this god as Adda/Addu/Adad (in the Babylonian culture), or as other local gods.
Chapter 5 deals with the diffusion of the cult of Addu in the Upper Mesopotamia, in Babylonia, and in the Susiana, describing his main temples (with an insight on his respective consorts).
Chapter 6 exposes the later syncretism of Haddu (Addu/Adad) with the god Teššub and Ba’alu in Upper Mesopotamia and in Northern Syria, including both Hurrian and Hittite traditions.
Chapter 7 moves to more recent periods, describing the figure of the god Adad in the Neo-Assyrian period, displaying the actual pantheon of that culture, and locating the most important temples of this god in Assyria, Babylonia, Elam, and Persia, retracing the paths towards a new interpretation of this god in the literature of that time.
Some indices concludes the volume, referring to the main epithets of Iškur-Adad in the Sumerian and Akkadian dictionaries, adding at the very end a copy of the most important cuneiform texts related to this god.