Duttur (Sumerian language:𒀭𒁍𒁺, dBU-du) was a Mesopotamian goddess best known as the mother of Dumuzid. She frequently appears in texts mourning his...

dying god Dumuzi, indicating a degree of conflation with his usual mother Duttur. She could also be equated with the medicine goddess Gula, especially in...

ama ("mother") and umma ("old woman" or "wise woman"). Their mother was Duttur. An alternate tradition, attested in a hymn of Shulgi, refers to Anu and...

relatives were Geshtinanna, well attested as his sister, and their mother Duttur. Belili is described as a mourner in the incantation series Šurpu, which...

example Enki was usually regarded as the son of Nammu and Geshtinanna of Duttur, even though texts describing them as children of Urash exist. Not much...

(for half the year); Kur (for the other half) Genealogy Parents Enki and Duttur Siblings Geshtinanna (sister), Amashilama (not usually, but in some texts...

was regarded as the wife of Hendursaga in the third millennium BCE. Duttur Duttur was the mother of Dumuzi. Thorkild Jacobsen proposed that she should...

Ishtarat Lagamal Ninkarrak Amasagnudi Azimua Bau Belili Bizilla Dumuzi-abzu Duttur Ereshkigal Ezina Gatumdag Geshtinanna Gula Gunura Hegir-Nuna Hedimeku Hušbišag...

served to interpret the grief experienced by Dumuzi's mother, Ninsun (or Duttur, the divine ewe), his sister Geshtinanna, and even his wife Inanna. Furthermore...

his father Ga'u (Gayu), the shepherd of Sin, and of the mother of Dumuzi, Duttur. A possible reference to Lahar occurs in a name from the Early Dynastic...

mourning Dumuzi's death alongside his sister Geshtinanna and his mother Duttur. Samuel Noah Kramer's and Thorkild Jacobsen's original translation ends...

Dina Katz additionally notes similarities in the portrayal of Lisin and Duttur as mourning goddesses. The male form of Lisin could be sometimes treated...