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'''''??should be AMA.ME.BAD I think - needs to be checked and an etymology needs to be offered??'''''
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==Concordance, Etymology, History==
==Dictionary==
===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim===
===Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim===
Variant reading:
Variant reading:

Latest revision as of 17:48, 16 August 2025

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Pleiades and Venus in the morning sky. (by Susanne M Hoffmann)

dAMA.ME.TIL (𒀭𒂼𒈨𒁁) is a Sumerian name for Ishtar of the Stars, namely Venus.

??should be AMA.ME.BAD I think - needs to be checked and an etymology needs to be offered??

Concordance, Etymology, History

Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim

Variant reading:

  • dAMA.ME.BAD, lit. "the mother goddess, ME gathering";
  • an epithet of the goddess Ishtar like the planet Venus [G. 18; Tallqvist 1938, 37, 261].
Sources Identifications
In the list of the gods AN:
  • dAnum (IV 180):
    • [d]˹ama˺.me.til = min(= d8-tar2 mul.<meš>)
    • "Amametil = Goddess of the stars" [CT 25, 31:12; Litke 1996, 161:180].

Historical Dictionaries

Kurtik (2022, a26) Gössmann (1950)
вар. чтения: dAMA.ME.BAD, букв. «Богиня-мать, ME собирающая»; эпитет богини Иштар как планеты Венера [G. 18; Tallqvist 1938, 37, 261].

I. Источники.

В списке богов AN:dAnum (IV 180): [d]˹ama˺.me.til = min(= d8-tar2 mul.<meš>) «Амаметил = Богиня звезд» [CT 25, 31:12; Litke 1996, 161:180].

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