sources: SRC_POTTS_ELAM

The sources grounding every entity classification and relationship in the database (live count on the home page and in v_release_metrics). Primary texts include the Pyramid Texts (c. 2375 BCE), Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, the Masoretic Text, Nag Hammadi corpus, Avesta, Ginza Rba, the Chaldean Oracles, the Corpus Hermeticum, Quran, and more. Secondary scholarship covers standard academic monographs for each tradition.

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SRC_POTTS_ELAM Daniel T. Potts, The Archaeology of Elam: Formation and Transformation of an Ancient Iranian State (Cambridge World Archaeology; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999)   secondary scholarship The comprehensive reference on Elamite civilization from the Proto-Elamite period (c. 3200 BCE) through the Neo-Elamite collapse (539 BCE). Chapter 8 ("Elamite Religion") surveys the pantheon systematically: Inshushinak as the supreme city deity of Susa and judge of the dead; Napirisha as the "great god" of the Middle Elamite period and the patron deity of the Untash-Napirisha dynasty (builders of Chogha Zanbil, c. 1250 BCE); Kiririsha as the principal goddess of Liyan and Susa; Humban as the dominant divine name in Old and Neo-Elamite royal nomenclature. Potts documents the Chogha Zanbil (Dur-Untash) ziggurat complex in detail — the best-preserved ancient ziggurat and the most important Elamite religious monument — which was dedicated to both Inshushinak and Napirisha, with subsidiary temples to Kiririsha and other deities. Also covers the bronze statue of Napirisha (c. 1340 BCE, Louvre), the Inshushinak votive objects from Susa, and the Neo-Elamite royal inscriptions invoking Humban and Kiririsha. Primary scholarly citation for all four Elamite entities.

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