Amurru

E384233

Mesopotamian god deity

Amurru is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated with the Amorite people, often linked to the steppe, pastoralism, and sometimes storm or weather phenomena.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Amurru canonical	4
Amorite land	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Mesopotamian god ⓘ deity ⓘ
associatedWith	Amorites ⓘ mountain regions ⓘ nomadic lifestyle ⓘ pastoralism ⓘ rain ⓘ steppe ⓘ storm ⓘ thunder ⓘ weather ⓘ wilderness ⓘ
culture	Mesopotamian religion ⓘ
epithet	Bel Amurrim ⓘ Lord of the Mountain ⓘ Lord of the Steppe ⓘ
gender	male ⓘ
hasCultType	local cult ⓘ state cult ⓘ
hasDomain	grazing lands ⓘ herding ⓘ livestock ⓘ
mentionedIn	Akkadian texts ⓘ Assyrian inscriptions ⓘ Old Babylonian texts ⓘ
nameAlsoRefersTo	Amurru ⓘ surface form: Amorite land region of the west ⓘ
nameLanguage	Akkadian ⓘ
oftenLinkedWith	Adad ⓘ Ishkur ⓘ
parentCulture	Akkadian tradition ⓘ
role	mediator between nomads and settled populations ⓘ protector of nomads ⓘ protector of pastoralists ⓘ
sometimesSyncretizedWith	storm gods ⓘ
spouse	Ashratum ⓘ Ashratum ⓘ surface form: Ašratum Gubarra ⓘ
symbol	gazelle ⓘ mountain ⓘ shepherd’s staff ⓘ
timePeriod	Bronze Age ⓘ Old Babylonian Empire ⓘ surface form: Old Babylonian period
worshipedBy	Amorites ⓘ surface form: Amorite people Assyrians ⓘ Babylonians ⓘ
worshipedInRegion	Assyria ⓘ Babylon ⓘ surface form: Babylonia Mesopotamia ⓘ Syro-Mesopotamian borderlands ⓘ

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Amorites → deity → Amurru ⓘ

Amorites → ethnonymInAkkadian → Amurru ⓘ

Egyptian–Hittite wars → involved → Amurru ⓘ

Amorite language → associatedWithDeity → Amurru ⓘ

Amurru → nameAlsoRefersTo → Amurru ⓘ

this entity surface form: Amorite land