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305:, who also were solar deities. However, the size of local western pantheons was comparatively smaller, leading to multiple Mesopotamian deities being presented as corresponding to a single Hurrian or Ugaritic one. For the same reason, some of the Hurrian entries appear to be phonetic transcriptions of Mesopotamian names, and might not represent actively worshiped deities. Other entries appear to be innovation of scholars, for example the goddess Ašte Kumurbineve, "wife of 194:, starting with enumerations of signs arranged based on similar shapes of the first wedges or pronunciation, and eventually progressing to similar compilations of various words, arranged thematically, for example based on accompanying determinative, as in the case of lists of names deities. Familiarizing scribes with the composition of the pantheon was most likely one of the aspects of passing down an idealized concept of shared Sumero-Akkadian heritage. 225:, it is difficult to tell if a single principle was followed in the compilers, and multiple originally separate short lists were likely joined to form the Weidner god list. In a more recent assessment Aaron Tugendhaft adopts a similar position and notes that for example, only the beginning of the list follows a clear hierarchical order. The exact contents of the list vary between copies, as new entries could be added with time. For example, 42:. Further examples have been found in many excavated Mesopotamian cities, and come from between the Old Babylonian period and the fourth century BCE. It is agreed the text served as an exercise for novice scribes, but the principles guiding the arrangement of the listed deities remain unknown. In later periods, philological research led to the creation of extended versions providing explanations of the names of individual deities. 236:
While most of the known copies follow the single column standard, the compilers of late versions could add more, for example, three fragments from Assur include explanations of the names of the listed deities in a second column, while one has a total of four additional ones, with information about
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signs used to write a given name and explanatory notes. While some such copies equate individual deities with each other, due to their late date they cannot necessarily be treated as a representation of universally followed theology. In the case of some entries, for example, the equation between
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curriculum was widespread at least since the Middle Babylonian period, though it might have already fulfilled such a role in some locations in the Old Babylonian period. It was studied in the beginning of scribal education. Apprentice scribes were expected to copy increasingly complex
106:). However, none are known from between the twenty sixth century BCE and the beginning of the second millennium BCE, and there is no clear indication that the early lists directly influenced the Weidner god list. The oldest known exemplar, VAT 6563, most likely originates in the 337:. This might be the result of either a mistake or scribal wordplay relying on the use of the sign IM as a logogram representing names of weather gods. For these reasons, neither the Hurrian nor Ugaritic columns are treated as an accurate reflections of, respectively, 91:. Weidner prepared a collation of the text in 1924, relying on various fragments originating in different locations and time periods. No standardized edition is presently available. While the incipit of the original text indicates that it was referred to simply as 205:, both well-attested and obscure. The standard Old Babylonian version has 245 entries, but it remains uncertain what principles their arrangement follows. Some deities of similar character, for example birth goddesses or local manifestations of 329:, a local god of similar character, presumably to avoid the implications that the goddess Shapash, the counterpart of Aya's husband, had a wife. A further commonly noted peculiar aspect of the trilingual list is the fact that 926: 290:
one only in the former. As the copies match each other, most likely Ugaritic scribes worked with preexisting Hurrian editions, presumably meant to facilitate bilingual scribal education.
254:), they depend only on the phonetic or graphic similarity between theonyms. Such variants did not serve as scribal exercises, but instead most likely constitute an ancient example of 229:
appears only in copies postdating the Old Babylonian period, with the exception of a single tablet from Tell Taban. Other examples of deities only present in later editions include
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The character of the Weidner god list has been described as "pedagogic". A number of copies have been identified as scribal exercises. It is agreed that its use as part of
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The goal of the multilingual editions was apparently to show correspondences between deities from the Mesopotamian, Hurrian and Ugaritic pantheons. For example,
69:, but due to a number of peculiarities characteristic for these texts, it is presumed they do not necessarily accurately reflect contemporary religious beliefs. 142:, the Weidner god list has been described as "chronologically and geographically widespread". Multiple tablets come from the Old Babylonian period from 1030:
Die Wettergottgestalten Mesopotamiens und Nordsyriens im Zeitalter der Keilschriftkulturen: Materialien und Studien nach den schriftlichen Quellen
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and Ugaritic scribes compiled multilingual editions providing information about correspondences between Mesopotamian,
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The Weidner god list was one of the standard Mesopotamian god lists. The earliest examples of such texts come from
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Goddesses in Context: On Divine Powers, Roles, Relationships and Gender in Mesopotamian Textual and Visual Sources
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is also proposed. While many of the god lists composed later are only known from a single city, with unique
1177: 282:. Versions from the first two of these cities, dating to the thirteenth century BCE, added new columns: a 1058:"A New Join to the Hurro-Akkadian Version of the Weidner God List from Emar (Msk 74.108a + Msk 74.158k)" 1182: 1162: 86: 45:
In the second millennium BCE, the Weidner god list spread outside Mesopotamia, with copies known from
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The Weidner god list has the form of a single-column enumeration of theonyms, starting with
202: 31: 27: 8: 159: 221:, all similarly associated with healing, occur separately from each other. According to 1085: 1015: 321:
is attested, in the Ugaritic list her name is reinterpreted as an uncommon spelling of
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A reconstruction of the Assyro-Babylonian god lists, AN:A-nu-um and AN:Anu šá Ameli
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The term Weidner god list is derived from the name of its original publisher,
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God lists from Old Babylonian Nippur in the University Museum, Philadelphia
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Through the second millennium BCE, the Weidner god list diffused through
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and therefore equated with Eyan (a Hurrian variant of Ea) and
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Elementary Education in Early Second Millennium BCE Babylonia
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is the conventional name of one of the known ancient
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Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 727: 676: 664: 652: 616: 261: 16:Scholarly list of Mesopotamian deities 924: 444: 417: 345:, but merely as scribal innovations. 118:compositions of this genre found in 13: 14: 1194: 605:Asher-Greve & Westenholz 2013 545:Asher-Greve & Westenholz 2013 433:Asher-Greve & Westenholz 2013 884:. Penn State University Press. 848: 286:one in both cases and a third 1: 506:Gadotti & Kleinerman 2021 348: 1148:3rd-millennium BC literature 1111:10.1017/cbo9781316226728.009 1062:Altorientalische Forschungen 913:Reallexikon der Assyriologie 907:Lambert, Wilfred G. (1971), 237:pronunciation, names of the 7: 1119: 957:Peterson, Jeremiah (2009). 180: 10: 1199: 1097:Tugendhaft, Aaron (2016). 963:. Münster: Ugarit Verlag. 925:Litke, Richard L. (1998). 909:"Götterlisten · God lists" 72: 1027:Schwemer, Daniel (2001). 1004:10.1017/s0021088900000723 986:Shibata, Daisuke (2009). 233:, Magalla and Nin-Eanna. 1153:Mesopotamian literature 1074:10.1515/aofo-2017-0009 1056:Simons, Frank (2017). 890:10.1515/9781646021802 203:Mesopotamian deities 158:Nippur and various " 32:third millennium BCE 1178:Third Dynasty of Ur 841:, pp. 181–182. 802:, pp. 179–180. 778:, pp. 177–178. 715:, pp. 172–173. 583:, pp. 168–169. 262:Outside Mesopotamia 223:Wilfred G. Lambert 1183:Isin-Larsa period 1163:Hurrian mythology 1068:(1). 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Index

Mesopotamian
deities
third millennium BCE
Ur III
Isin-Larsa period
Emar
Ugarit
Amarna
Hurrian
Hurrian
Ugaritic deities
Assyriologist
Ernst Weidner
de
Early Dynastic
Shuruppak
Isin-Larsa period
Ur III period
Old Babylonian
Nippur
Uruk
Isin
Susa
Mari
Ur
Babylon
Sippar
Tell Taban
Middle Babylonian
peripheral

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