Query: A Fragmentary Sumerian Hymn to the God Inimanizi

[hukkana]

During my recent work of compiling deities from various lists, mostly from the An Anum list, I have come across a fragment identified as STT 2, 400. I would link to it but oracc seems very iffy about actually linking to any specific document.

In this smaller fragmentary god list I have come across a god named "Inimanizi". Some research actually dug up something, which is more then I can say for many gods on the An Anum list, that being the following item:

(J. Peterson 2011b) A Fragmentary Sumerian Hymn to the God Inimanizi,

Nouvelles assyriologiques bréves et utilitaires p. 13-15


I could find no further discussion or mention Inimanizi except links to oracc, nor any kind of summary of this paper, or the Hymn in question.

I would like to find out more about this god, regardless of how little it would be, and this could be a great help.

[sheshki]

Reallexikon der Assyriologie 5

Inimmanizi (^dinim.ma.ni.zi/zu), "his
word is true" , an ordinary Sumerian
personal name used as a divine name for
the vizier of Ninurta in Old Babylonian
and later sources : TCL 15 no. 10, 72;
UM 8/2,108,2; BIN 7, 2I7, I; OIP 27,64
(Old Babylonian or Cassite cylinder seal
inscription); An = Anum I 228; CT 24,
49b, 10; AK I, 29, 51; CT 29, 47, K 7145,
7; STT 400, 4-5. In An = Anum this
deity has a wife Lamma and a brother
Ninkarnunna, but in K 7145 and perhaps
STT 400 it seems that the latter is wife
rather than brother.
W. G. Lambert

[hukkana]

Thanks for the speedy response.

I've not seen the name on the An Anum myself, but I can't really find a translated version of anything but what I assume to be the third tablet, otherwise I'd probably not have asked this question.

[us4-he2-gal2]

hukkana: You are welcome to ask any question here, big or small. Sometimes you may get information that is unexpected but useful nonetheless. In this case, I can point you to a website where the article you mention by Peterson is available online.


Nouvelles assyriologiques bréves et utilitaires (NABU) is a French periodical (although contibutions are sometimes in English) which features short notes from Assyriologists about language matters usually. It is available for free download at:

sepoa.fr/?page_id=14


The NABU particular volume you need then is the following, p. 15:

sepoa.fr/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/2011-1.pdf




Unfortunately, the hymn to Inimanizi that Peterson treats and publishes here for the first time is very broken and fragmentary. He does not provide a translation of the text, possibly because of the broken nature of the fragments, but I can make out some of it and it doesn't say very much about the god, it names his father (Utaulu) and maybe calls him the great chief en of the land and some things like this. But this deity is likely to remain obscure like so many we encounter



P.S. I often invite new members who seem particularly interested to e-mail me directly for a discussion about obtaining research material and access to works and so on or should you have any questions Assyriological conventions you can ask here or by e-mail: [e-mail]

[hukkana]

May 1, 2015 9:02:36 GMT -5 us4-he2-gal2 said:

hukkana: You are welcome to ask any question here, big or small. Sometimes you may get information that is unexpected but useful nonetheless. In this case, I can point you to a website where the article you mention by Peterson is available online.


Nouvelles assyriologiques bréves et utilitaires (NABU) is a French periodical (although contibutions are sometimes in English) which features short notes from Assyriologists about language matters usually. It is available for free download at:

sepoa.fr/?page_id=14


The NABU particular volume you need then is the following, p. 15:

sepoa.fr/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/2011-1.pdf




Unfortunately, the hymn to Inimanizi that Peterson treats and publishes here for the first time is very broken and fragmentary. He does not provide a translation of the text, possibly because of the broken nature of the fragments, but I can make out some of it and it doesn't say very much about the god, it names his father (Utaulu) and maybe calls him the great chief en of the land and some things like this. But this deity is likely to remain obscure like so many we encounter



P.S. I often invite new members who seem particularly interested to e-mail me directly for a discussion about obtaining research material and access to works and so on or should you have any questions Assyriological conventions you can ask here or by e-mail: [e-mail]

Thanks for the information.

In looking up Utaulu, he is mentioned as a name of Ninurta in Ur (though that whole section seems to stretch the syncretisation a bit far if you ask me ) and the name seems to be identified with Ninurta in another text (http://www.aulaorientalis.org/AuOr%20escaneado/AuOr%202-1984/N_%202/5.pdf)

But I did find a refference to him in a Nabu journal, where Utaulu is given as one of seven names for Destiny decreeing Gods in the E-Sangil, alternate names for Anu, Enlil, Ea and others. I am intrigued whether this means Utaulu was always a secondary name for Ninurta, or whether he was once a seperate deity, as I would maybe think would be the case if he was considered the father of Innimanizi at some point.

Utaulu is supposedly mentioned in "A Balaĝ to Enlil from the First Sealand Dynasty".