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Uzumua

a Pleiades name resource

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One of the name of Nippur according to the so-called “Nippur Compendium” and is “the place in which mankind was created and where oracles are perfected.” The goddess Ištar (as Ungal-Nibri/Šarrat-Nippuri) is said to have been its ruler.

Romanized Name(s):
Uzumua

Name as attested:

Language:
Sumerian

Name type:
geographic name

Accuracy of transcription:
accurate

Level of transcription completeness:
complete

Level of certainty in association between name and the place:
Certain

Temporal attestations:

2nd Millennium BCE (2000-1000 BCE) (confident)
Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian Middle East (720–540 BC) (confident)

References:

See Further:

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

Uzumua is known from the “Nippur Compendium,” the "Myth of the Pickax," a hymn to the Queen-of-Nippur, an Old Babylonian cultic lament, an inscription of Esarhaddon, and an Akkadian dispute.

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