Yarikh
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Yarikh, or Yaraḫum, was a moon god worshiped in the Ancient Near East. He is best attested in sources from the Amorite city of Ugarit in the north of modern Syria, where he was one of the principal de
The Phoenician version of the Karatepe bilingual.
Sin (mythology)
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Sin or Suen also known as Nanna is the Mesopotamian god representing the moon. While these two names originate in two different languages, respectively Akkadian and Sumerian, they were already used in
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…adopted the Mesopotamian convention of using dEN.ZU to represent the name of the moon deity in cuneiform. While Suinu's name is a cognate of Akkadian Sin, it is presumed that his cult developed locally and was not introduced from Mesopotamia. His cult center was apparently NI-ra-arki, a city located close…
Impression of the cylinder seal of Ḫašḫamer, ensi (governor) of Iškun-Sin c. 2100 BCE. The seated figure is probably king Ur-Nammu, bestowing the governorship on Ḫašḫamer, who is led before him by Lamma (protective goddess). Sin himself is indicated in the form of a crescent.
Symbols representing Sin (center), Ishtar (left) and Shamash (right), as depicted on the upper half of a kudurru of Meli-Shipak II.
A relief of Kušuḫ (right), the Hurrian moon god, from Yazılıkaya
A relief depicting the offering of a libation to the Anatolian moon god Arma (right).