{"database": "deitydb", "table": "entities", "rows": [["ENT_LUW_KUBABA", "Kubaba", null, "Luwian", "city goddess / enthroned queen", "High Deity", "city sovereignty; divine queenship; nature; lion; pomegranate; fertility", null, null, null, "A", null, null, null, null, null, "Kubaba (also Kuba, Kubaba, Luwian hieroglyphic KUBABA) is the city goddess of Carchemish, the principal Neo-Hittite/Luwian state of the Iron Age (c. 1000-717 BCE, when the city fell to Sargon II of Assyria). She is attested extensively in Luwian hieroglyphic inscriptions from Carchemish and is the most distinctive deity of the Luwian Iron Age tradition. Her standard iconographic program shows her enthroned on a throne flanked by lions (or standing on a lion), holding a pomegranate in one hand and a mirror or bird in the other \u2014 attributes of divine sovereignty, fertility, and feminine divine power. Her divine domain encompasses city tutelary protection, queenship and sovereignty, and the natural realm (the pomegranate and bird associations). In the Neo-Hittite political tradition, Kubaba and the storm deity Tarhunza are the two principal deities of Carchemish; she also appears at other Luwian sites (Malatya, Karkamish/Tell Bashar) and in the Luwian hieroglyphic inscriptions of Zincirli (Sam'al). Her most consequential legacy is etymological and theological: the Phrygian epithet \"Kubileya\" in the divine name \"Matar Kubileya\" (Mother Kubileya = the Phrygian Mother Goddess) directly borrows the name Kubaba, demonstrating the transmission of the Luwian city goddess tradition into the Phrygian highlands \u2014 the etymological foundation of the reception chain that ultimately produces the Greek \"Kybele\" (Cybele) and the Roman \"Magna Mater.\" The chain Kubaba \u2192 Kubileya \u2192 Cybele is one of the most etymologically secure deity reception chains in the ancient world. A separate \"Kubaba of Kish\" appears in the Sumerian King List (c. 2500 BCE) as a female innkeeper who became king, but whether this is the same deity or a coincident name is debated; the Luwian Kubaba's cult is documented independently. Taracha (2009) pp. 186-198.", "deity"]], "columns": ["entity_id", "canonical_name", "greek_name", "tradition", "entity_type", "category", "primary_domains", "tags", "cult_scope", "primary_period", "evidence_confidence", "review_status", "inclusion_basis", "earth_association_score", "chthonic_flag", "serpent_flag", "short_note", "entity_class"], "primary_keys": ["entity_id"], "primary_key_values": ["ENT_LUW_KUBABA"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.3939410002640216, "source": "jebboone/deitydb", "source_url": "https://github.com/jebboone/deitydb", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT"}