Ninsianna

Anunnaki deity, goddess of Venus, associated with love and war, linked to Inanna.

Core Themes

• Love and celestial power.
• Linked to Heavenly Deities.

Related Concepts & Sources

Inanna (similar deity), Babylonian Mythology (context), Ishtar (counterpart)

Scholarly entry: Ninsi'anna (god/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

• Beaulieu, P.-A. 1995. "Theological and philological speculations on the names of the goddess Antu." Orientalia 64 : 187-211.
• Heimpel, W. 1982. "A catalog of Near Eastern Venus deities." Syro-Mesopotamian Studies 4/3 : 9-22.
• Heimpel, W. 1998-2001a. "Ninsiana." In Reallexikon der Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie 9 , pp. 487-488. Berlin: de Gruyter
• Kraus, F.R. 1971. "Ein Altbabylonischer Privatbrief an eine Gottheit." Revue d'Assyriologie 65 : 27-36.
• de Meyer, L. 1982. "Deux prières ikribu du temps d'Ammī-ṣaduqa." In G. van Driel (ed.), zikir šumim: Assyriological Studies Presented to F.R. Kraus on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday , pp. 271-279. Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten.
• Richter, T. 2004. Untersuchungen zu den lokalen Panthea Süd- und Mittelbabyloniens in altbabylonischer Zeit. 2., verbesserte und erweiterte Auflage. Alter Orient und Altes Testament, 257. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag.