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Kassite deities

Detail from a kudurru of Ritti-Marduk, from Sippar, Iraq, 1125-1104 BCE. A perching bird, symbol of Šuqamuna and Šumaliya, can be seen at the lower right. British Museum.

Kassite deities were the pantheon of the Kassites (Akkadian: Kaššû, from Kassite Galzu[1]), a group inhabiting parts of modern Iraq (mostly historical Babylonia and the Nuzi area), as well as Iran and Syria, in the second and first millennia BCE.[2] A dynasty of Kassite origin ruled Babylonia starting with the fifteenth century BCE.[3] Kassites spoke the Kassite language, known from references in Mesopotamian sources.[4] Many of the known Kassite words are names of Kassite deities.[4] Around twenty have been identified so far.[5] The evidence of their cult is limited,[6] and only two of them, Šuqamuna and Šumaliya, are known to have had a temple.[4] Other well attested Kassite deities include the presumed head god Ḫarbe, the weather god Buriaš, the sun god Saḫ and the deified mountain Kamulla.

  1. ^ Shelley 2017, p. 197.
  2. ^ Brinkman 1980, pp. 464–466.
  3. ^ Brinkman 1980, p. 465.
  4. ^ a b c Brinkman 1980, p. 472.
  5. ^ Brinkman 1980, p. 471.
  6. ^ Sommerfeld 1985, p. 18.

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