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

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...

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...

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) was a King of the second Mariote kingdom who reigned c. 2500 BC. According to François Thureau-Dangin, the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

the diaspora. Its two components, the star of Utu/Shamash, which was a symbol for the god Shamash, and is combined with the ancient symbol of the god...

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...

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...

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

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

An, the god of the sky. Alongside her twin brother Utu (later known as Shamash), Inanna is the enforcer of divine justice; she destroyed Mount Ebih for...

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...

siege (see 651 BC); starved out by his half brother Ashurbanipal, king Shamash-shum-ukin commits suicide in his burning palace, allegedly having built...

dUTU and it is uncertain when it should be read as Nahhunte rather than Shamash. It is possible that in legal texts, when dUTU occurs next to Inshushinak...

which she advises her son and interprets his dreams, petitions the sun god Shamash to protect him, and accepts Enkidu as a member of her family. In the Old...

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...

1064–1043 BC) the Shamash cult center along with all the other temples in Sippar were destroyed by Suteans and cult symbol of Shamash was lost. In the...

Shamash School was a high school in Baghdad of the Jewish educational system founded in 1928 until 1951. Some public figures from cultural, academic and...

King Hammurabi is revealed the code of laws by the Mesopotamian sun god Shamash, also revered as the god of justice....

above the central shield on either sides. Each star represents Ishtar and Shamash. The shield's dexter supporter is the Lion of Babylon, the sinister supporter...