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Inanna
Ring posts of Inanna on each side of a temple door, with naked devotee offering libations.
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Leick
Pryke
The eight-pointed star was Inanna/Ishtar's most common symbol. Here it is shown alongside the solar disk of her brother Shamash and the crescent moon of her father Sin on a boundary stone of Meli-Shipak II, dating to the twelfth century BCE.
Day
Kramer
January 2023
Most common tradition: Nanna and Ningal
xviii, xv
Hurrian
шумерская богиня любви
Westenholz
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Green
Marcovich
верховна богиня шумерської міфології
Cuneiform logogram "Inanna"
Graz
Mesopotamian
Inanna ring posts on the Warka vase.jpg
Inanna's symbol is a ring post made of reed, an ubiquitous building material in Sumer. It was often beribboned and positioned at the entrance of temples, and marked the limit between the profane and the sacred realms. The design of the emblem was simplified between 3000 and 2000 BCE to become the cuneiform logogram for Inanna: , generally preceded by the symbol for "deity" .
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Guirand
diosa del amor y de la guerra en la mitología sumeria
hook-shaped knot of reeds, six or eight-pointed star, lion, rose, dove
பண்டைய மெசபடோமிய பெண் கடவுள்
Ishtar vase Louvre AO17000-detail.jpg
Lions were one of Inanna/Ishtar's primary symbols. The lion above comes from the Ishtar Gate, the eighth gate to the inner city of Babylon, which was constructed in around 575 BCE under the orders of Nebuchadnezzar II.
Egyptian
Enki more rarely
Possibly Nanaya
dea Sumeria
Assante
Inano
Pergamon Museum Berlin 2007112.jpg
Инанна
yes
xiii–xix
Inana
sumerská bohyně
Breitenberger
Elamite
mezopotamska boginja plodnosti, lepote in ljubezni
Goddess Ishtar on an Akkadian seal, 2350–2150 BCE. She is equipped with weapons on her back, has a horned helmet, places her foot in a dominant posture upon a lion secured by a leash and is accompanied by the star of Shamash.
Inanna( 𒀭𒈹)
Cyrino
Copy of the Akkadian version of Ishtar's Descent into the Underworld from the Library of Assurbanipal, currently held in the British Museum in London, England
On the Warka Vase
Asher-Greve
Depiction of Inanna/Ishtar from the Ishtar Vase, dating to the early second millennium BCE
Gilgamesh
إلهة من الميثولوجيا السومرية
シュメールの女神
Lion
dea mesopotamica della fecondità, della bellezza e dell'amore.
Inanna's symbol: the reed ring-post
Sümer mitolojisinde aşk ve savaş tanrıçası
Інанна
Ereshkigal
Utu/Shamash
سمیری دیوی
Collins
godin van de Soemerische religie
إنانا
sumer istennő
Sumerian goddess
Brandão
Inanna symbol and cuneiform logogram, the reed ring stalk.jpg
Goddess of love, war, and fertility
伊南娜
Kudurru Melishipak Louvre Sb23 n02.jpg
Wolkstein
Ishtar
Ishtar descent to the Underworld BM ME K.162.jpg
Sweet
Queen of Heaven
Emblem of goddess Inanna, circa 3000 BCE.
Fontenrose
Mandaean
אלת הפריון האהבה והמלחמה השומרית
Sometimes An or Enlil
イナンナ
수메르의 여신
Inanna( 𒀭𒈹(Ishtar)
déesse dans la mythologie sumérienne
Nemet-Nejat
sumerische Gottheit
Black
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Wall plaque showing libation scene from Ur, Iraq, 2500 BCE. British Museum .jpg
Budin
sumerilaisen mytologian jumalatar
Ινάννα
Emblem of the Goddess Inanna.jpg
sumertarren jainkosa