Utu

Anunnaki deity, Sumerian sun god of justice, equivalent to Shamash.

Core Themes

• Justice and divine illumination.
• Linked to Divine Justice.

Related Concepts & Sources

Shamash (alternate name), Heavenly Deities (group), Epic of Gilgamesh (narrative)

Scholarly entry: Utu/Šamaš (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
• Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (search)

References

• Starr, I. 1990. Queries to the Sungod: Divination and Politics in Sargonid Assyria . State Archives of Assyria, 4. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. PDF version of Introduction - part 1 (3.1 MB) [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/knpp/downloads/starr_saa04_intro1.pdf] via Knowledge & Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/knpp] .
• Woods, C.E. 2004. "The Sun-God Tablet of Nabû-apla-iddina revisited." Journal of Cuneiform Studies 56 : 23-103. Available online via JSTOR [http://www.jstor.org/stable/3515920] (subscription required).