Tashmetu-sharrat (Akkadian: Tašmētu-šarrat or Tašmētum-šarrat, meaning "Tashmetum is queen") was a queen of the Neo-Assyrian Empire as the primary consort...
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any one given time. Sennacherib is known to have had another queen, Tašmētu-šarrat. Naqiʾa might have become queen late in Sennacherib's reign. She is...
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of many women. Two of his wives are known by name—Tashmetu-sharrat (Tašmetu-šarrat) and Naqi'a (Naqiʾā). Whether both held the position of queen is uncertain...
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Sennacherib, perhaps married to him before his more well-attested wife Tašmētu-šarrat, and the mother of his oldest children. It is notoriously difficult...
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Atalia (Atalia), queen of Sargon II (r. 722–705 BC) Tashmetu-sharrat (Tašmētu-šarrat), queen of Sennacherib (r. 705–681 BC) (?) Naqi'a (Naqī'a), possibly...
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was the "Lady of Uruk" (Bēltu-ša-Uruk), Nanaya was the "Queen of Uruk" (Šarrat Uruk). Many sources present Nanaya as a protégée of Inanna, but only three...
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Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, ISBN 978-0-931464-99-7 Horry, Ruth (2013), "Tašmetu (goddess); Divine consort of the god Nabu, associated with wisdom and sexual...
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