ID: 901002166 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002166	Record Type: Character/Person

	Nanna (Sumerian deity)

Note: Mesopotamian religion, the god of the moon. Akkadian counterpart was the deity Sin. Nanna may have originally meant only the full moon; later the crescent was his emblem, sometimes represented by the horns of a great bull. Was intimately connected with the cattle herds that were the livelihood of the people in the marshes of the lower Euphrates River, where the cult developed. The city of Ur, of the same region, was the chief center of the worship of Nanna. Nanna bestowed fertility and prosperity on the cowherds, governing the rise of the waters, the growth of reeds, the increase of the herd, and therefore the quantity of dairy products produced. His consort, Ningal, was a reed goddess.

Names:

	Nanna (Sumerian deity) (preferred,English-P,D)

Hierarchical Position:

		Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
		....<Ancient Near-Middle Eastern iconography> (P)
		........<Ancient Near-Middle Eastern characters> (P)
		............Nanna (Sumerian deity) (P)

Related Iconography:

	counterpart is .... Sin
	..........(Legend, Religion, Mythology, Ancient Near-Middle Eastern iconography, Ancient Near-Middle Eastern characters, Sin (Akkadian deity)) [901002167]

Other Relationships:

	affiliated/associated with .... cattle
	.....(Bovidae (family), Artiodactyla (order), Mammalia (class), Vertebrata (subphylum), Chordata (phylum), Animalia (kingdom), Eukaryota (domain), living organisms (entities), Living Organisms (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	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)

	is personification of .... Moon
	.....(Earth, Solar System, Milky Way Galaxy) (TGN)

Sources:

	Nanna (Sumerian deity)
	................Johnston, Religions of the Ancient World (2004)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Johnston, Religions of the Ancient World (2004)
	................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)