Tashmitum

The name Tashmitum appears for the first time in the days of Hammurabi.

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It is always 'Nabu and Tashmitum,' and it is never Tashmitum without Nabu.

The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow 1891

The great Ashurbanabal, in the conventional subscript attached to his tablet, is particularly fond of coupling Tashmitum with Nabu, as the two deities who opened his ears to understanding and prompted him to gather in his palace the literary treasures produced by the culture that flourished in the south.

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The form Anat (without the ending) is used by many scholars, as Sarpanit and Tashmit are used instead of Sarpanitum and Tashmitum.

The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow 1891

While the creation of Tashmitum may be a product of Babylonian religious thought, it is in Assyrian texts that her name is chiefly found.

The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow 1891

Sargon, [303] who groups Bel with Sarpanitum and Nabu and Tashmitum, at the head of the gods of Babylonia; and similarly by Tiglathpileser III., on the occasion of his enumerating the chief gods of the Babylonian pantheon.

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Babylonian kings, such as Nebuchadnezzar II., when they deem it proper to attach a consort to Nabu call her Nanâ, [138] _i. e._, simply the lady, and not Tashmitum, a proof, how little hold the name had taken upon the

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Other gods directly introduced are Nanâ, Ishtar, Nebo, Tashmitum, and Sarpanitum, after whom the years are at times designated, probably in consequence of some special honors accorded to the gods.

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Nabu at Calah, but beyond this and Ashurbanabal's constant association of Tashmitum with Nabu in the subscript to his tablets, she appears only when the kings of Assyria coming to Babylonia as they were wont to do, [308] in order to perform sacrifices, enumerate the chief gods of the

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The appellation is therefore a most appropriate one, and there seems little reason to question that Tashmitum was originally nothing but one of the terms by which Nabu was designated, just as he was called Papsukal in his rôle as

The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow 1891