Ninimma was a Mesopotamian goddess best known as a courtier of Enlil. She is well attested as a deity associated with scribal arts, and is variously described...

appears among the courtiers of the god Enlil, alongside deities such as Ninimma and Ninmada. She could also be paired with Siraš, a goddess of similar...

etymologically related to the element imma (SIG7) in the name of the goddess Ninimma, which could be explained in Akkadian as nabnītu or bunnannû, two terms...

version, she is either the mother of Ninimma and thus grandmother of Uttu, or the mother of the latter goddess, with Ninimma skipped. According to Dina Katz...

sex, and fertility, have survived. In Sumerian religion, the goddess Ninimma is the divine personification of the vulva. Vaginal fluid is always described...

appears in enumerations of the courtiers of Enlil, with the sequence of Ninimma, Ennugi, Kusu, Ninšar, Ninkasi and Ninmada occurring in at least two sources...

mischief, water, and creation Nabu, Babylonian god of wisdom and writing Ninimma, a minor Mesopotamian goddess regarded as the scribe and scholar of Enlil...

fashioning humankind from clay alongside their mistress, and are listed as Ninimma, Shuzianna, Ninmada, Ninšar, Ninmug, Mumudu, and Ninniginna. Ninhursag...

and Ninmah, the latter group consisted of seven goddesses: Shuzianna, Ninimma, Ninmada, Ninšar, Ninmug, Mumudu and Ninnigina. On this basis, he proposes...

similar character, such as Ninagal. He was also regarded as the husband of Ninimma, and was worshiped in her temple in Nippur. He is attested in texts describing...

Gibil, as well as with various courtiers of Enlil, such as Shuzianna and Ninimma. The main cult center of Nuska was Nippur, where he is already attested...

Akkadian), a title of the spouse of Ninurta, which could be applied to Gula or Ninimma. An unnamed alewife who corresponds to Šiduri appears already in an Old...

goddess depicted with streams of water on seals from that city. Ninimma Nippur Ninimma was a courtier of Enlil regarded as his scribe and sometimes as...

of Enlil, and appears in god lists alongside its other members, such as Ninimma and Kusu. He was worshiped in Nippur, where his temple Erabriri was most...

A variant of Enki and Ninhursag makes Ninkurra Uttu's grandmother and Ninimma her mother. Enki is also addressed as Uttu's father in a Neo-Assyrian incantation...

scholarship did not necessarily translate into cultic practice. The goddess Ninimma, regarded as the personal scribe of Enlil, was sometimes associated with...

(dam-ban-da) of Enlil and nurse of Sin, though the same text also refers to Ninimma as the latter. The term referring to her relation with Enlil has also been...

Seleucid period, where she appears in a ritual text alongside Uṣur-amāssu, Ninimma and otherwise unknown Ninurbu. In An = Anum, Gilgamesh occurs separately...

Ningirima Ninhursag (Aruru, Damgalnuna, Damkina, Ninmah, Nintu) Ninigizibara Ninimma Ninisina Ninkarrak Ninkasi Ninkurra Ninlil Nin-MAR.KI Ninmena Ninmug Ninnibru...

one of the seven helpers of the eponymous goddess, the other six being Ninimma, Shuzianna, Ninmada, Ninšar, Ninmug and Ninniginna. These deities do not...

Kassite period mentions"Ningal of Nippur" alongside the local goddess Ninimma. From lower Mesopotamia Ningal was introduced to Mari, where she was already...

is described as his "deputy" (šanê) as well. In An = Anum Suzianna and Ninimma, both usually regarded as courtiers of Enlil, are also identified as Sin's...

Shalmaneser I. The word can also refer to the chapel of Enlil in the temple of Ninimma at Nippur. It is also mentioned in the Inscription of Gaddas as a temple...

sometimes applied to Ninimma, who was usually not the wife of Ninurta, though an exception can be found in the recently published Hymn to Ninimma for Nanne, Nanne...

Ninmah in the myth Enki and Ninmah. In this text, their names are given as Ninimma, Šuzianna, Ninmada, Ninšar, Ninmug, Mumudu and Ninnigina. Wilfred G. Lambert...

appear in the myth Enki and Ninmah, where the members of this group are Ninimma, Shuzianna, Ninmada, Ninšar, Ninmug and Ninnigina. They are collectively...

was also applied to a shrine of Ninlil which was a part of a temple of Ninimma in the same city. Further locations within the Ekur temple complex dedicated...

Nergal eventually nominated for the task. One of the two known hymns to Ninimma mentions Aruru, according to Christopher Metcalf in this context described...

the first millennium BCE, for example in the temple of the local goddess Ninimma. She is also attested in sources linked to Babylon, Borsippa, Der and Uruk...

and in one document she occurs between the local deities Erragal and Ninimma. The hymn Bau A, despite its title used in modern literature, is focused...