Eridu (Sumerian: 𒉣𒆠, romanized: NUN.KI; Sumerian: eridugki; Akkadian: irîtu) was a Sumerian city located at Tell Abu Shahrain (Arabic: تل أبو شهرين)...

Eridu Genesis, also called the Sumerian Creation Myth, Sumerian Flood Story and the Sumerian Deluge Myth, offers a description of the story surrounding...

Eridu is an unincorporated area in Taylor County, Florida and was a rail stop on the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. It was named after Eridanus, the latin...

on humanity. After the fall of Eridu, a group of survivors established a bastion against the invaders known as New Eridu. The group survived the oncoming...

continuing into the Jemdet Nasr and Early Dynastic periods. The Sumerian city of Eridu, on the coast of the Persian Gulf, is considered to have been one of the...

period and succeeded by the Late Chalcolithic period. The excavators of Eridu and Tell al-'Ubaid found Ubaid pottery for the first time in the 1910-20s...

Eridu by their god Enki or by his advisor (or Abgallu from ab=water, gal=big, lu=man), Adapa U-an (the Oannes of Berossus). The first people at Eridu...

sources (e.g. Damascius). He was originally the patron god of the city of Eridu, but later the influence of his cult spread throughout Mesopotamia and to...

sacrifices. Eridu Genesis has a similar plot to that of the Akkadian myth, Atra-Hasis, though it is harder to tell what happens exactly in Eridu Genesis because...

estimate in 2018. Babylon (ܒܒܝܠ) (بابل) Ctesiphon (Al-Mada'in, المدائن) Eridu (إريدو) Hatra (حضر) Kish (كيش) Lagash (لجش) Nineveh (ܢܝܢܘܐ) (نينوى) Nippur...

attempting to provide explanations for the origin of the universe. For instance, Eridu Genesis, the oldest known creation myth, contains an account of the creation...

Mesopotamian goddess regarded as a creator deity in the local theology of Eridu. It is assumed that she was associated with water. She is also well attested...

one of three Mesopotamian Flood Myths alongside the one including in the Eridu Genesis, and an episode from the Atra-Hasis Epic. Many scholars believe...

Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, the construction of the ziggurats in Uruk and Eridu are described as taking place in a world "before Dilmun had yet been settled"...

state of chaos or amorphousness. Enûma Eliš (Babylonian creation myth) Eridu Genesis Greek cosmogonical myth Jamshid Korean creation narratives Kumulipo...

of Early Rulers, and other similar sources which invariably place him in Eridu and assign a reign lasting thousands of years to him. The tablet of Old...

culture Halaf culture Halaf-Ubaid Transitional period Samarra culture (Eridu) Uruk period Jemdet Nasr Period Bronze Age Sumer Hamazi Assyria Akkadian...

Alalngar was the second king to exercise the kingship of Eridu over all of Sumer—according to the Sumerian King List (SKL). He may have fl. c. 2866 –...

them out to the various Sumerian centers, beginning with his own city of Eridu and continuing with Ur, Meluhha, and Dilmun. This is described in the poem...

in its title, they were usually separate from each other. The cities of Eridu and Malgium were regarded as Damgalnuna's cult centers. She was also worshiped...

"who grew up on pasture land", An-Enlilda, "the conjurer of the city of Eridu", Utuabzu, "who ascended to heaven". The first of these legendary fish-man...

specialized craft, and this confirms finds from other Ubaid sites like Eridu. The site also yielded a cemetery and some finds from the Jemdet Nasr period...

Hammar Marshes West Hammar Marshes Uruk Archaeological City Ur Archaeological City Tell Eridu Archaeological Site Ahwar is an Arabic word for marshland....

priestess who received foodstuffs at the temple of Enki in the city of Eridu. The cuneiform sign was encoded in Unicode 5.0 under its name AN at the...

One text mentions as many as fifty Anunnaki associated with the city of Eridu. In Inanna's Descent into the Netherworld, there are only seven Anunnaki...

space of the underworld (Kur) and the earth (Ma) above. In the city of Eridu, Enki's temple was known as E2-abzu (house of the deep waters) and was located...

commands Bartimaeus to retrieve a magical artifact from the ancient city of Eridu. Bartimaeus succeeds, and then tricks the magician into commanding him to...

Shuruppak, such as offering lists. He was also a member of the pantheon of Eridu. In the Kassite period he was worshiped in Nippur. Later attestations are...

(5500–4500 BC) Amuq B Hacilar Mersin 24–22   Hassuna Ubaid 1 (Eridu 19–15) Ubaid 2 (Hadji Muhammed) (Eridu 14–12) Susiana A Yarim Tepe Hajji Firuz Tepe 4800 Pottery...

question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of cuneiform script. Babylon Eridu Isin Kish Lagash Larsa Mari Nippur Sippar Tuttul Ur Uruk Tell Leilan Kurda...