entity_id,period_id,confidence,rationale,source_id,review_status
ENT_MES_ADAD_ISHKUR,PER_MES_EARLY,high,Adad/Ishkur (the storm deity) is attested in the Fara god-lists as Ishkur; his Akkadian name Adad develops later but the Sumerian Ishkur cult is Early Dynastic; he is the son of Anu in some traditions,SRC_ETCSL,reviewed
ENT_MES_AMURRU,PER_MES_EARLY,B,Sumerian/early Mesopotamian deity attested from the third millennium.,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_ANU,PER_MES_EARLY,high,"Anu (An) is attested in the earliest Sumerian god-lists (Fara period, c. 2600 BCE) as the supreme sky deity; the sign AN is among the earliest proto-cuneiform symbols from Uruk IV (c. 3200 BCE)",SRC_ETCSL,reviewed
ENT_MES_ASAG,PER_MES_EARLY,A,Sumerian-attested deity/figure (Early Dynastic–Ur III literary tradition).,,reviewed
ENT_MES_ASHGI,PER_MES_EARLY,high,"Warrior god and original tutelary of Adab, son of Ninhursag and Shulpae, already named in Early Dynastic sources from Fara and the Kesh Temple Hymn.",SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_ASHNAN,PER_MES_EARLY,B,Sumerian/early Mesopotamian deity attested from the third millennium.,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_BAU,PER_MES_EARLY,A,Sumerian-attested deity/figure (Early Dynastic–Ur III literary tradition).,,reviewed
ENT_MES_DAGAN,PER_MES_EARLY,B,Sumerian/early Mesopotamian deity attested from the third millennium.,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_DAMU,PER_MES_EARLY,A,Sumerian-attested deity/figure (Early Dynastic–Ur III literary tradition).,,reviewed
ENT_MES_DUMUZI_ABZU,PER_MES_EARLY,high,"Tutelary goddess of Kinunir near Lagash (also called Kinirša), a female counterpart to Dumuzi attested in the Early Dynastic Lagash state pantheon.",SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_DUMUZI_TAMMUZ,PER_MES_EARLY,high,Dumuzi appears in the Sumerian king list as a historical king of Uruk (ante-diluvian section); he is attested in the Fara god-lists; the Inanna-Dumuzi love poetry is among the earliest Sumerian literary compositions,SRC_ETCSL,reviewed
ENT_MES_ENBILULU,PER_MES_EARLY,B,Sumerian/early Mesopotamian deity attested from the third millennium.,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_ENKI_EA,PER_MES_EARLY,high,"Enki (En-ki = ""Lord Earth""; Ea in Akkadian) is attested at Eridu from the earliest literate period; his city Eridu is among the oldest Sumerian cities; the Eridu theology is the oldest recoverable Mesopotamian cosmogonic tradition",SRC_ETCSL,reviewed
ENT_MES_ENLIL,PER_MES_EARLY,high,Enlil is attested in the Fara god-lists (c. 2600 BCE) and in the earliest royal inscriptions as the chief deity of Nippur and the divine authority over kingship; one of the most frequently attested Early Dynastic deities,SRC_ETCSL,reviewed
ENT_MES_ENNUGI,PER_MES_EARLY,B,Sumerian/early Mesopotamian deity attested from the third millennium.,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_ERESHKIGAL,PER_MES_EARLY,high,Ereshkigal is attested in the Fara god-lists and in Early Dynastic texts as the queen of the underworld; the Descent of Inanna tradition (attested in Ur III copies) preserves Early Dynastic cosmological thinking,SRC_ETCSL,reviewed
ENT_MES_GATUMDUG,PER_MES_EARLY,high,"Tutelary goddess of Lagash described metaphorically as its mother in Early Dynastic sources, later honored by Gudea who called her his mother and father.",SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_GESHTINANNA,PER_MES_EARLY,high,Geshtinanna (divine sister of Dumuzi; scribe of the underworld) appears in Early Dynastic Sumerian texts; her role in the Inanna-Dumuzi myth cycle is established in the earliest Sumerian literary tradition,SRC_ETCSL,reviewed
ENT_MES_GIBIL_GIRRA,PER_MES_EARLY,high,"Fire god (Akk. Girra), patron of metalworkers and purification, with earliest attestations in Early Dynastic III administrative texts from Fara and Telloh.",SRC_ORACC,reviewed
ENT_MES_GILGAMESH,PER_MES_EARLY,medium,Gilgamesh appears in the Sumerian king list as a king of Uruk in the Early Dynastic period (c. 2700 BCE); Sumerian Gilgamesh poems date to c. 2100-2000 BCE (Ur III period),SRC_ETCSL,reviewed
ENT_MES_GULA,PER_MES_EARLY,A,Sumerian-attested deity/figure (Early Dynastic–Ur III literary tradition).,,reviewed
ENT_MES_GUNURA,PER_MES_EARLY,high,"Daughter of Ninisina and Pabilsag and sister of the dying healer-god Damu, attested as part of the Isin healing-goddess circle.",SRC_ORACC,reviewed
ENT_MES_HENDURSAGA,PER_MES_EARLY,high,"Divine night-watchman and 'chief herald,' attested in the Lagash pantheon from the Early Dynastic period and later equated with Akkadian Ishum.",SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_IGALIMA,PER_MES_EARLY,high,"Son of Ningirsu and Bau, the divine 'door of the throne-room'/E-ninnu, receiving offerings already in Early Dynastic Lagash and named on the Gudea cylinders.",SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_INANNA_ISHTAR,PER_MES_EARLY,high,"Inanna is attested in the Fara god-lists and in proto-cuneiform from Uruk; the cuneiform sign for Inanna (the gate-post or reed bundle) is among the oldest written symbols; she is the primary deity of Uruk, the first city",SRC_ETCSL,reviewed
ENT_MES_ISHARA,PER_MES_EARLY,B,Sumerian/early Mesopotamian deity attested from the third millennium.,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_ISHTARAN,PER_MES_EARLY,A,Sumerian-attested deity/figure (Early Dynastic–Ur III literary tradition).,,reviewed
ENT_MES_ISIMUD,PER_MES_EARLY,B,Sumerian/early Mesopotamian deity attested from the third millennium.,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_KULLA,PER_MES_EARLY,B,Sumerian/early Mesopotamian deity attested from the third millennium.,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_LAHAR,PER_MES_EARLY,B,Sumerian/early Mesopotamian deity attested from the third millennium.,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_LISIN,PER_MES_EARLY,high,"Originally a goddess addressed as 'mother,' the final deity praised in the Early Dynastic Zame Hymns as tutelary of Abu Salabikh; daughter of Shulpae and Ninhursag.",SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_LUGALBANDA,PER_MES_EARLY,A,Sumerian-attested deity/figure (Early Dynastic–Ur III literary tradition).,,reviewed
ENT_MES_LUGALIRRA,PER_MES_EARLY,B,Sumerian/early Mesopotamian deity attested from the third millennium.,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_LUGAL_MARADA,PER_MES_EARLY,high,"City god of Marad, sometimes a manifestation of Ninurta; subject of one of the Temple Hymns, with cult attested from the 3rd millennium.",SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_LULAL,PER_MES_EARLY,B,Sumerian/early Mesopotamian deity attested from the third millennium.,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_MESLAMTAEA,PER_MES_EARLY,B,Sumerian/early Mesopotamian deity attested from the third millennium.,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_MES_SANGA_UNUG,PER_MES_EARLY,high,"Warrior god of Uruk's Kullaba district, 'great ensi of Inanna,' belonging to the earliest Uruk pantheon and named in the Early Dynastic Zame Hymns.",SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_MUSHDAMMA,PER_MES_EARLY,B,Sumerian/early Mesopotamian deity attested from the third millennium.,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_NAMMU,PER_MES_EARLY,high,Nammu is attested in the earliest Sumerian theological compositions; her Eridu theology predates the systematic Nippur tradition; she represents the oldest stratum of Sumerian cosmogony at Eridu (Enki's city),SRC_ETCSL,reviewed
ENT_MES_NAMTAR,PER_MES_EARLY,A,Sumerian-attested deity/figure (Early Dynastic–Ur III literary tradition).,,reviewed
ENT_MES_NANAYA,PER_MES_EARLY,A,Sumerian-attested deity/figure (Early Dynastic–Ur III literary tradition).,,reviewed
ENT_MES_NANNA_SIN,PER_MES_EARLY,high,Nanna (the moon god) is attested in the Fara god-lists and in Early Dynastic royal inscriptions from Ur; his temple e-kiš-nu-gál at Ur is one of the earliest documented temples,SRC_ETCSL,reviewed
ENT_MES_NANSHE,PER_MES_EARLY,A,Sumerian-attested deity/figure (Early Dynastic–Ur III literary tradition).,,reviewed
ENT_MES_NERGAL,PER_MES_EARLY,high,Nergal (the underworld and war deity) is attested in the Fara god-lists; his city Cutha (Kutha) was one of the major Early Dynastic cult centers,SRC_ETCSL,reviewed
ENT_MES_NETI,PER_MES_EARLY,A,Sumerian-attested deity/figure (Early Dynastic–Ur III literary tradition).,,reviewed
ENT_MES_NINAZU,PER_MES_EARLY,A,Sumerian-attested deity/figure (Early Dynastic–Ur III literary tradition).,,reviewed
ENT_MES_NINDARA,PER_MES_EARLY,high,"Local Lagash god and husband of Nanshe, attested in the Early Dynastic Lagash pantheon; Selz regards him as elder brother of Hendursaga.",SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_NINEGAL,PER_MES_EARLY,high,"'Lady of the Palace' (Akk. Belet-ekallim); oldest attestation is the Early Dynastic Fara god list, later guardian of the royal dynasty across Mesopotamia, Mari and the Hittite world.",SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_NINGIRIMA,PER_MES_EARLY,high,"Major Early Dynastic incantation goddess and divine purifier associated with snakes and sacred-water basins, central to the earliest Sumerian magical tradition.",SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_NINGIRSU,PER_MES_EARLY,A,Sumerian-attested deity/figure (Early Dynastic–Ur III literary tradition).,,reviewed
ENT_MES_NINGISHZIDA,PER_MES_EARLY,A,Sumerian-attested deity/figure (Early Dynastic–Ur III literary tradition).,,reviewed
ENT_MES_NINGUBLAGA,PER_MES_EARLY,B,Sumerian/early Mesopotamian deity attested from the third millennium.,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_NINHURSAG,PER_MES_EARLY,high,"Ninhursag (also Ninmah, Nintu, Ki; ""Lady of the Sacred Mountain"") is attested in the Fara god-lists as the mother goddess; she is one of the four principal Sumerian deities (Anu, Enlil, Enki, Ninhursag) of the Early Dynastic canon",SRC_ETCSL,reviewed
ENT_MES_NINILDU,PER_MES_EARLY,high,"Divine carpenter worshiped at Zabalam, attested in the god lists from Abu Salabikh and Fara and in the Early Dynastic Zame Hymns.",SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_NINIMMA,PER_MES_EARLY,high,Divine scholar/scribe and courtier of Enlil who also assisted at birth; attested among the early Nippur circle and in Enki and Ninmah.,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_NINIRIGAL,PER_MES_EARLY,high,"Tutelary goddess of Uruk's Kullaba district, counted among the chief deities praised in the opening Early Dynastic hymns.",SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_NINISINA,PER_MES_EARLY,high,"'Lady of Isin,' great divine physician first attested in the Fara god lists of the Early Dynastic IIIa period; wife of Pabilsag, later syncretized with Gula.",SRC_ORACC,reviewed
ENT_MES_NINKASI,PER_MES_EARLY,A,Sumerian-attested deity/figure (Early Dynastic–Ur III literary tradition).,,reviewed
ENT_MES_NINKURRA,PER_MES_EARLY,high,"Divine artisan/sculptor of the Enki–Ninhursag generative sequence, mother of Uttu in the Dilmun myth tradition.",SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_NINLIL,PER_MES_EARLY,high,Ninlil attested at Nippur from the Early Dynastic period; the Enlil and Ninlil myth preserved in Ur III copies but composed earlier; her presence in the Nippur theological tradition goes back to the earliest literate period,SRC_ETCSL,reviewed
ENT_MES_NINMUG,PER_MES_EARLY,high,"Divine metalworker/sculptor ('tibira kalamma') and birth-helper of Ninmah, attested in the Early Dynastic Fara god list with cult at Kisiga and Adab.",SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_NINNIGARA,PER_MES_EARLY,high,"Goddess of the niĝar (a birth/temple precinct) linked to birth and healing, attested in the Fara god list and the Early Dynastic Zame Hymns.",SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_NINSHAR,PER_MES_EARLY,high,Goddess of the Enki–Ninhursag and Enki–Ninmah birth-helper circle; the theophoric name Ur-Ninšar is common in Early Dynastic and Ur III sources.,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_NINSHUBUR,PER_MES_EARLY,B,Sumerian/early Mesopotamian deity attested from the third millennium.,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_NINSIANNA,PER_MES_EARLY,B,Sumerian/early Mesopotamian deity attested from the third millennium.,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_NINSIKILA,PER_MES_EARLY,high,"Spouse of Lisin, male in Early Dynastic sources (Zame Hymns) before a later gender reversal; distinct from the homophonous Dilmunite goddess Meskilak.",SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_NINTI,PER_MES_EARLY,high,"'Lady of the rib/life,' one of the eight healing deities born of Ninhursag in the Dilmun myth; attested near Ninkasi in a Fara-period document.",SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_NINTINUGGA,PER_MES_EARLY,B,Sumerian/early Mesopotamian deity attested from the third millennium.,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_NINURA,PER_MES_EARLY,high,"Goddess of the Umma region and wife of Shara, attested only in third-millennium sources before being displaced by Inanna of Zabalam.",SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_NINURTA,PER_MES_EARLY,high,"Ninurta (warrior deity; son of Enlil; later also an agriculture deity) is attested in the Fara god-lists and in Early Dynastic hymns; Lugale, one of the most important Sumerian mythological texts, is attested in Ur III copies but reflects earlier tradition",SRC_ETCSL,reviewed
ENT_MES_NIN_MARKI,PER_MES_EARLY,high,"Divine protector of cattle and oath-deity in the Lagash pantheon, daughter of Nanshe and Nindara, with chief cult center at the sea-port Guabba; attested in Early Dynastic Lagash.",SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_NIRAH,PER_MES_EARLY,high,"Serpent god and messenger of Ishtaran of Der, depicted as a snake; worship attested from the late Early Dynastic period.",SRC_ORACC,reviewed
ENT_MES_NISABA,PER_MES_EARLY,high,"Nisaba (goddess of grain, writing, and scribal arts) is attested from the Early Dynastic period in school texts and god-lists; she is the patron of the scribal tradition from its earliest documented phase",SRC_ETCSL,reviewed
ENT_MES_NUMUSHDA,PER_MES_EARLY,B,Sumerian/early Mesopotamian deity attested from the third millennium.,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_NUNGAL,PER_MES_EARLY,high,"Goddess of prisons and divine sifter of the guilty from the innocent, a daughter-in-law of Enlil whose name is attested already in the Early Dynastic period.",SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_NUSKA,PER_MES_EARLY,A,Sumerian-attested deity/figure (Early Dynastic–Ur III literary tradition).,,reviewed
ENT_MES_PABILSAG,PER_MES_EARLY,B,Sumerian/early Mesopotamian deity attested from the third millennium.,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_PANIGINGARRA,PER_MES_EARLY,high,Son of Ninhursag and Shulpae worshiped at Adab and associated with his brother Ashgi; attested from the Early Dynastic period and later equated with Ninurta.,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_SHAKKAN,PER_MES_EARLY,B,Sumerian/early Mesopotamian deity attested from the third millennium.,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_SHARA,PER_MES_EARLY,A,Sumerian-attested deity/figure (Early Dynastic–Ur III literary tradition).,,reviewed
ENT_MES_SHULPAE,PER_MES_EARLY,B,Sumerian/early Mesopotamian deity attested from the third millennium.,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_SHULSHAGA,PER_MES_EARLY,high,"Eldest son of Ningirsu and Bau and elder brother of Igalima, attested receiving offerings in Early Dynastic Lagash documents.",SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_SHUL_UTULA,PER_MES_EARLY,high,"'Youngling shepherd,' personal god of the Ur-Nanshe dynasty of Lagash, named in Early Dynastic royal inscriptions of Eannatum and Entemena.",SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_SIRSIR,PER_MES_EARLY,B,Sumerian/early Mesopotamian deity attested from the third millennium.,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_TISHPAK,PER_MES_EARLY,B,Sumerian/early Mesopotamian deity attested from the third millennium.,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_UTTU,PER_MES_EARLY,B,Sumerian/early Mesopotamian deity attested from the third millennium.,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed
ENT_MES_UTU_SHAMASH,PER_MES_EARLY,high,Utu (the sun god) is attested in the Fara god-lists and in the earliest Sumerian royal inscriptions; the sun-disc symbol appears in proto-cuneiform; Larsa and Sippar are his cult cities from the Early Dynastic period,SRC_ETCSL,reviewed
ENT_MES_ZABABA,PER_MES_EARLY,A,Sumerian-attested deity/figure (Early Dynastic–Ur III literary tradition).,,reviewed
ENT_RLMX_DILMUN,PER_MES_EARLY,high,"Dilmun, the 'pure, clean, bright' land where there is no death or sickness, watered with fresh water by Enki; the Sumerian paradise (and a real geographical region, Bahrain). Attested in the myth Enki and Ninhursag.",SRC_DESCENT_ISHTAR,reviewed