Shamash (Akkadian: šamaš), also known as Utu (Sumerian: dutu 𒀭𒌓 "Sun") was the ancient Mesopotamian sun god. He was believed to see everything that...

Shamash was the ancient Mesopotamian sun god. Shamash may also refer to: Gabbai, also known as a shamash, a person who assists in the running of synagogue...

Gerald David Shamash, Baron Shamash (born 1947) is a British lawyer and life peer. He has acted as a solicitor for the Labour Party since 1990 and was...

Ashurbanipal bypassed the elder son Shamash-shum-ukin. Perhaps in order to avoid future rivalry, Esarhaddon designated Shamash-shum-ukin as the heir to Babylonia...

decree of [the gods] Ashur and Shamash, Bel and Nabu, my father exalted me, amid a gathering of my brothers he asked Shamash, "is this my heir?" and the...

Mari Ikun-Shamash or Iku-Shamash (𒄿𒆪𒀭𒌓; fl. c. 2500 BC) was a King of the second Mariote kingdom. According to François Thureau-Dangin, the king reigned...

The Tablet of Shamash (also known as the Sun God Tablet or the Nabuapaliddina Tablet) is a stele recovered from the ancient Babylonian city of Sippar...

removing him from the wild. Shamash reminds Enkidu of how Shamhat fed and clothed him, and introduced him to Gilgamesh. Shamash tells him that Gilgamesh...

fortresses were on the middle Euphrates, less than 100 miles from Babylon. Shamash-mudammiq is described as having been defeated by the Assyrian king Adad-nirari...

of two rebel kings of Babylon, Bel-shimanni (Akkadian: Bêl-šimânni) and Shamash-eriba (Akkadian: Šamaš-eriba), against Xerxes I, king of the Persian Achaemenid...

Shamash School is an Iraqi Jewish high school located on Al-Rasheed Street, Baghdad founded in 1928. The school was supported by the Anglo-Jewish Association...

Assyrian prince Shamash-shum-ukin, who eventually started a civil war in 652 BC against his own brother, Ashurbanipal, who ruled in Nineveh. Shamash-shum-ukin...

Sin's wife. Their best attested children are Inanna (Ishtar) and Utu (Shamash), though other deities, for example Ningublaga or Numushda, could be regarded...

Sin, god of the Moon, and the rayed solar disk, which was a symbol of Shamash, the god of the Sun. The rosette was another important symbol of Ishtar...

A gabbai (Hebrew: גבאי), sometimes spelled gabay, also known as shamash (שמש, sometimes transcribed shamas) or warden (UK, similar to churchwarden), is...

Museum. The top of the stele features an image in relief of Hammurabi with Shamash, the Babylonian sun god and god of justice. Below the relief are about...

surrounded by a four-pointed star in blue, representing the ancient sun god Shamash. Four triple-colored (red-white-blue), widening, wavy stripes connect the...

Akkadian: 𒌋𒌋𒈬𒁺, romanized: Šamaš-šuma-ukin or Šamaš-šumu-ukīn, meaning "Shamash has established the name"), was king of Babylon as a vassal of the Neo-Assyrian...

each day of the six-day journey, Gilgamesh prays to Shamash; in response to these prayers, Shamash sends Gilgamesh oracular dreams during the night. The...

names were attributed to her in god lists. She was regarded as the wife of Shamash, the sun god. She was worshiped alongside her husband in Sippar. Multiple...

Robert Edward Sheldon, Baron Sheldon PC (born Isaac Ezra Shamash; 13 September 1923 – 2 February 2020) was a British Labour Party politician and life...

Mar-biti-apla-usur VIII Nabû-mukin-apli Ninurta-kudurri-usur II Mar-biti-ahhe-iddina Shamash-mudammiq Nabu-shuma-ukin I Nabu-apla-iddina Marduk-zakir-shumi I Marduk-balassu-iqbi...

in 627 BC. After the failed rebellion by the preceding king of Babylon, Shamash-shum-ukin, against Ashurbanipal, Kandalanu was proclaimed as the new vassal...

associated with dreams. She was regarded as the daughter of the sun god Shamash (Utu) and could herself be called the "Utu of dreams". References to male...

an ancient city in modern-day Syria. The storm-god Adad and the sun-god Shamash jointly became the patron gods of oracles and divination in Mesopotamia...

Westenholz, Ishum's mother was Sudaĝ, one of the names of the wife of Shamash (Aya). Due to an association between Sudaĝ and Sud (Ninlil), a myth lists...

the gods, radiant is he." While the name may suggest a relationship with Shamash, Marduk has no genealogy with the sun god. However, Babylon was closely...

Tell the lady Zinu: Iddin-Sin sends the following message: May the gods Shamash, Marduk and Ilabrat keep you forever in good health for my sake. From year...

apart from the sealed document which we both handed over to the temple of Shamash." — A. L. Oppenheim, The Seafaring Merchants of Ur Metoyer, Eli (2021-03-09)...

it portrays the Babylonian king receiving his kingship from the sun god Shamash; on the bottom is the collection of written laws. The text itself explains...