ID: 901002161 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002161	Record Type: Character/Person

	Ereskigal (Mesopotamian deity)

Note: In Mesopotamian religion, goddess in the Sumero-Akkadian pantheon who was Lady of the Great Place (i.e., the abode of the dead) and in texts of the 3rd millennium BCE wife of the god Ninazu (elsewhere accounted her son); in later texts she was the wife of Nergal. Ereshkigal’s sister was Inanna (Akkadian: Ishtar).

Names:

	Ereskigal (Mesopotamian deity) (preferred,English-P,D)
	Ereshkigal (Mesopotamian deity) (English)
	Irkalla (Mesopotamian deity) (English)

Hierarchical Position:

		Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
		....<Ancient Near-Middle Eastern iconography> (P)
		........<Ancient Near-Middle Eastern characters> (P)
		............Ereskigal (Mesopotamian deity) (I)

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... deity
	.....(people in religion, people in religion and related occupations, people in the humanities, people by occupation, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	deity of .... underworld (doctrinal concept)
	.....(doctrinal concepts, religious concepts, religions and religious concepts, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:

	Ereskigal (Mesopotamian deity)
	................Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) sh2010014324
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	Ereshkigal (Mesopotamian deity)
	................Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
	................Johnston, Religions of the Ancient World (2004)
	Irkalla (Mesopotamian deity)
	................Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) sh2010014324
	................ Source for image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ereshkigal#/media/File:British_Museum_Queen_of_the_Night.jpg