Istar of Nineveh reconsidered

From: Journal of Cuneiform Studies | Date: January 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Forty years ago, M. Vieyra produced his "prolegomenon" to the study of the goddess Istar of Nineveh (1957),1 a deity found not only in Assyria, but across the periphery of cuneiform civilization. Since that time, a number of scholars have dealt with this subject,2 and I have now taken it up anew in connection with an edition of the Hittite babilili rituals (CTH 718).3 These texts, which feature Akkadian language incantations within a Hittite context, are concerned with the worship only of the Istar type Pirinkir (Beckman in press b), but they have drawn my attention to the general question of ...

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