Sin

Anunnaki deity, Akkadian moon god, equivalent to Nanna, governing lunar cycles.

Core Themes

• Lunar cycles and divine guidance.
• Linked to Heavenly Deities.

Related Concepts & Sources

Nanna (alternate name), Ur (center), Cosmology (context)

Scholarly entry: Nanna/Suen/Sin (god), 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

• Cohen, M.E. 1996. "The sun, the moon and the city of Ur." In Religion and Politics in the Ancient near East , ed. A. Berlin, pp. 7-20. Bethesda, MD: University Press of Maryland.
• Collon, D. 1992. "The Near Eastern moon god." In Natural Phenomena: Their Meaning, Depiction, and Description in the Ancient Near East , ed. D.J.W. Meijer, pp. 19-37. North-Holland, Amsterdam; New York: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• Gadd, C.J. 1958. "The Harran inscriptions of Nabonidus." Anatolian Studies 8 : 35-92.
• Hall, M.G. 1985. "A study of the Sumerian moon-god, Nanna/Suen." Unpublished PhD, University of Pennsylvania.
• Klein, J. 2001. "The genealogy of Nanna-Suen and its historical background." In T. Abusch, et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the XLV Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale : Historiography in the Cuneiform World , pp. 279-302. Bethesda, MD: CDL Press.
• Krebernik, M. 1993-98b. "Mondgott. A. I." In Reallexikon der Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie 8 , pp. 361-369. Berlin: de Gruyter
• Veldhuis, N. 1991. A Cow of Sîn . Library of Oriental Texts. Groningen: Styx.