Commentary

A limestone slab from Sippar was dedicated in Sumerian to the goddess Ashratum, wife of the god Mardu/Amurrum, for the life of Hammu-rapi.

Ashratum’s name is cognate with Ugaritic ʾAṯirat. Ashratum’s epithet “daughter-in-law of An” follows from the fact that her husband Amurrum was conceived by the ancient Mesopotamians t…