Nidaba

Anunnaki deity, goddess of writing and grain, another name for Nisaba.

Core Themes

• Knowledge and agriculture.
• Linked to Forbidden Knowledge.

Related Concepts & Sources

Nisaba (alternate name), Cuneiform Tablets (medium), Sumerian Mythology (context)

Scholarly entry: Nidaba (goddess), Ancient Mesopotamian Gods and Goddesses (Oracc, University of Pennsylvania).

Attestations in Cuneiform Corpora

• The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
• The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions
• The Corpus of Ancient Mesopotamian Scholarship
• Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (search)

References

• Braun-Holzinger, E. 1998-2001. "Nisaba, B." In Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie 9 , p. 579. Berlin: De Gruyter.
• Civil, M. 1983. "Enlil and Ninlil: the marriage of sud", Journal of the American Oriental Society 103: 43-66. Online via JSTOR.
• McEwan, G.J.P. 1998-2001. "Nanibgal". In Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vordersasiatischen Archäeologie 9 , p. 151. Berlin: de Gruyter
• Michalowski, P. 1998-2001. "Nisaba, A." In Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie 9 , pp. 575-579. Berlin: de Gruyter.
• Michalowski, P. 2002. "Round about Nidaba: on the early goddesses of Sumer." In Sex and Gender in the Ancient Near East. Proceedings of the 47th Recontre Assyriologique Internationale, Helsinki, July 2-6, 2001 , eds. S. Parpola and R.M. Whiting. Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, pp. 413-422.