Shuqamuna and Shumaliya
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Šuqamuna and Šumaliya were a pair of deities introduced to Mesopotamia during the Kassite dynasty of Babylonia. They had a close association with the royal family; the pair of gods are referred to as
Detail from a Kudurru of Ritti-Marduk, from Sippar, Iraq, 1125-1104 BCE. A perching bird, symbolic of Šuqamuna and Šumaliya, can be seen at the lower right. British Museum
Dur-Kurigalzu
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Dur-Kurigalzu was a city in southern Mesopotamia, near the confluence of the Tigris and Diyala rivers, about 30 kilometres west of the center of Baghdad. It was founded by a Kassite king of Babylon, K
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…legitimacy under palace control. However, the Kassite kings certainly did not reject Enlil as a major deity; when Kurigalzu founded his new capital of Dur-Kurigalzu, he chose Enlil as its patron deity and erected a large ziggurat there in the god's honour. Further evidence of the importance of Enlil to the Kassite…
The ziggurat of Dur-Kurigalzu, December 2021
The Ziggurat of Dur-Kurigalzu (1915).
Door socket from Tell-el-'Abyad at Aqar-Quf mentioning the name of king Kurigalzu and his palace (E-GAL-KI-SAR-RA), Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraq
Male head from Dur-Kurigalzu, Iraq, reign of Marduk-apla-iddina I. Iraq Museum.