Kassite deities
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Kassite deities were the pantheon of the Kassites, a group inhabiting parts of modern Iraq, as well as Iran and Syria, in the second and first millennia BCE. A dynasty of Kassite origin ruled Babyloni
Detail from a kudurru of Ritti-Marduk, from Sippar, Iraq, 1125-1104 BCE. A perching bird, symbol of Šuqamuna and Šumaliya, can be seen at the lower right. British Museum.
Tablet with a Kassite-Akkadian vocabulary (ca. 1200-800 BCE). British Museum.
T. G. Pinches' drawing showing the cuneiform writing of the names of Kassite gods and their Babylonian equivalents.
Part of the front of the Eanna temple. Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin.
Nuska
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Nuska or Nusku, possibly also known as Našuḫ, was a Mesopotamian god best attested as the sukkal of Enlil. He was also associated with fire and light, and could be invoked as a protective deity agains
Assyrian king Tukulti-Ninurta I praying to a symbolic representation of Nuska. The cuneiform inscription on the base reads "Cult pedestal of the god Nuska, the grand vizier, the temple Ekur...", 13th century BCE. From Assur, Iraq. Pergamon Museum.