Narundi
Sign in to saveNarundi ( dna-ru-ti) or Narunde was an Elamite goddess worshiped in Susa. She is attested there roughly between 2250 BCE and 1800 BCE. Multiple inscriptions mention her, and it assumed she was a popular deity at the time. In later periods, she occurs exclusively in Mesopotamia, where she played a role in apotropaic rituals in association with the Sebitti. Many attestations are available from late Assyrian sources, but it is not certain if they should be regarded as an indication of continuous worship.
Key facts
- Deity.type
- Elamite
- Deity.name
- Narundi
- Deity.image
- Statue_of_the_Goddess_Narundi.jpg
- Deity.caption
- A statue from Susa from the reign of Puzur-Inshushinak presumed to be a depiction of Narundi. Louvre.
- Deity.cult_center
- Susa
- Deity.siblings
- "Divine Seven or Elam" or Sebitti (in Mesopotamia)
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7 sectionsContents
- In Elam
- During the reign of Puzur-Inshushinak
- Later Elamite attestations
- In Mesopotamia
- Textual sources
- References
- Bibliography
Narundi ( dna-ru-ti) or Narunde was an Elamite goddess worshiped in Susa. She is attested there roughly between 2250 BCE and 1800 BCE. Multiple inscriptions mention her, and it assumed she was a popular deity at the time. In later periods, she occurs exclusively in Mesopotamia, where she played a role in apotropaic rituals in association with the Sebitti. Many attestations are available from late Assyrian sources, but it is not certain if they should be regarded as an indication of continuous worship.
==In Elam== thumb|Archaic votive statue with Eshpum's inscription in the back Narundi is the oldest attested Elamite deity. She first appears in sources contemporaneous with the reign of the Akkadian Empire, and according to Javier Álvarez-Mon enjoyed a degree of popularity in the early periods. Heidemarie Koch suggested that she functioned as the goddess of victory. She was worshiped in Susa at least since around 2260 BCE, as indicated by a statue dedicated to her found in the so-called "Manishtushu shrine." Its style is characteristic for the Mesopotamian art of the Early Dynastic IIIa period (roughly 2500 BCE), though the inscription is some 250 years more recent, and states that Eshpum, a local official, dedicated it to Narundi on behalf of Maništušu, king of the Akkadian Empire: