An = Anum,也被稱為Great God List美索不達米亞偉神列表),[1][2]是保存最久的美索不達米亞神祇列表。

許多其他古代學術著作都受到影響,包括類似的É寺廟英語É (temple)𒂍[3]列表和各種神學評論。也有人提出是在塞琉古時期改造烏魯克萬神殿的基礎。

根據神學原則排列,但石牓V和石牓VI似乎沒有遵循一個明確的系統,而石牓VII是一個後期附錄,列出了馬爾杜克和一位朝臣。

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is the longest preserved Mesopotamian god list, a type of lexical list英語Lexical lists cataloging the deities英語List of Mesopotamian deities worshiped in the 古代近東, chiefly in modern Iraq. While god lists are already known from the Early Dynastic period英語Early Dynastic Period (Mesopotamia), An = Anum has most likely only been composed in the Kassite period英語Kassite period.

While often mistakenly described as a list of 蘇美爾ian deities and their Akkadian英語Akkadian Empire equivalents, An = Anum is focused on presenting the familial relationships between deities, as well as their courts and spheres of influence. The first four tablets list the major gods and goddesses (安努, 恩利爾, 寧胡爾薩格, 恩基, Sin, 沙瑪什, Adad英語Adad and Ishtar英語Ishtar) and their courts, arranged according to theological principles, but tablets V and VI do not appear to follow a clear system, and tablet VII is a late appendix listing the names of 馬爾杜克 and one of his courtiers.

Many other works of ancient scholarship were influenced by An = Anum, including a similar list of temples英語É (temple) and various theological commentaries. It has also been proposed that it was the basis for the remodeling of the pantheon of 烏魯克 in the Seleucid英語Seleucid Empire period.

古代美索不達米亞神榜歷史

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The oldest known god lists come from the Early Dynastic period英語Early Dynastic Period (Mesopotamia),[4] and like other cuneiform英語cuneiform lexical lists英語lexical lists were presumably copied by scribes as exercises.[5] The first known document of this type is usually called the Fara英語Shuruppak god list, though it is also known from copies from 阿布·薩拉比克 and 烏魯克.[5] 466 names can be read from the surviving fragments, though it is estimated that it originally contained 560.[6] While it begins with the head of the pantheon, 恩利爾 (or, in some of the copies, 安努 and Enlil), the gods are otherwise arranged based on lexical, rather than theological criteria, for example deities whose names start with the sign NIN are grouped together.[7] Due to many of the names from it being otherwise unknown, little can be said about its contents otherwise.[8]

No god lists are known from between the end of the Early Dynastic period and the late third or early second millennium BCE, when the so-called "Weidner list" has been compiled,[9] though it is assumed that they were still being created through the second half of the third millennium BCE and examples simply have yet to be discovered.[10] The arrangement of deities in the Weidner list does not appear to follow any specific principles, and it has been proposed that it was the result of compiling various shorter lists together.[11] Copies are known from many locations in historical 巴比倫尼亞 and 亞述, as well as from Emar英語Emar, 烏加里特 and 阿瑪納.[12] The list was still in circulation in the late first millennium BCE.[8] Some versions contain additional columns with explanations of the names.[8] A copy from Ugarit adds columns listing Ugaritic and Hurrian英語Hurrian religion deities.[13]

In the Old Babylonian period英語Old Babylonian period, god lists were often the product of strictly local scribal traditions, and distinct ones are known from 尼普爾, 伊辛, Uruk, 蘇薩, Mari and perhaps 烏爾.[14] Each of these lists most likely documented only the hierarchy of deities recognized in the respective localities.[15] Fragments of many further god lists are known, chiefly from Assyrian copies, but their origin and scope are not fully understood.[16] Some of them focus on geographical distribution on deities, and mention many foreign gods as a result.[2]

While it was common to arrange the names of gods in lists, no analogous scholarly practice is attested for demons, and the incantation series Utukku Lemnutu outright states demons were not counted in the "census of Heaven and Earth," indicating the reasons behind this might have been theological.[17]

An = Anum 及其前身

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It is usually assumed that An = Anum has been composed in the Kassite period英語Kassite period,[1][18] though a text regarded as its forerunner has been dated to the Old Babylonian period.[19] The most probable date of composition is assumed to be the period between 1300 and 1100 BCE.[20] The name of the list used in modern literature is based on its first line, explaining that the Sumerian英語Sumerian language name An corresponds to Akkadian英語Akkadian language Anum.[20] Wilfred G. Lambert英語Wilfred G. Lambert proposed that it originated in the city of Babylon.[21] However, according to Jeremiah Peterson, documents from Old Babylonian Nippur indicate that both the An = Anum forerunner and other texts showing the beginning of the development of new lists fleshing out the relations between deities were also in circulation among the theologians of that city.[22]

While the forerunner, sometimes called the "Genouillac god list" after its original publisher, Henri de Genouillac英語Henri de Genouillac,[23] has only 473 entries,[24] over 2000 names are listed in An = Anum (2123 in the most complete known copy).[25] However, this should not be understood as analogous to the presence of 2000 individual deities, as many of the names are instead epithets or alternate names.[26] It is nonetheless the most extensive known god list.[23]

YBC 2401, the most complete known example, was copied by the Assyrian scribe Kidin-Sin during the reign of 提格拉特帕拉沙爾一世 according to its colophon.[25] This indicates that while Babylonian in origin, An = Anum already reached Assyria by the final decades of the second millennium BCE.[27] Kidin-Sin wrote that he relied on "old tablets" containing the list.[28] An = Anum continued to be copied in the first millennium BCE.[23] For example, both the list itself and various references to it are known from an archive from Seleucid Uruk.[29] Some of the known copies slightly differ from each other.[23]

現代研究及出版

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While fragments of An = Anum had already been published in the first half of the twentieth century,[4] a transcription of the most complete known copy, presently in the collection of the Yale University, has only been compiled by Richard L. Litke in 1958,[23] and remained unpublished for a long time.[30] In 1976 permission to use Litke's translation was granted to Dietz-Otto Edzard英語Dietz-Otto Edzard, who was the editor of Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie英語Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie at the time.[31] Many entries in subsequently compiled volumes of this encyclopedia rely on it.[31] Litke's reconstruction was later published as a book in 1998 in the series Texts from Yale Babylonian Collection英語Yale Babylonian Collection.[32]

While a second edition of An = Anum was being prepared by Wilfred G. Lambert for a time,[33] according to William W. Hallo英語William W. Hallo only three first tablets were finished by 1998.[31] Subsequently Lambert also compiled his edition of tablet V.[34] His version remained unpublished as of 2017.[34]

Early restorations sometimes confused fragments of An = Anum and An = Anu ša amēli, but the latter list is now considered to be a distinct work of Mesopotamian scholarship[35] and differs from An = Anum due to having three columns, with the third providing an explanation of the first two.[36]

目錄

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An = Anum is commonly understood as a list documenting Akkadian equivalents of Sumerian gods in a manner similar to the process of interpretatio graeca英語interpretatio graeca,[20] but according to Richard L. Litke this view is mistaken.[37] The primary goal of the compilers of An = Anum was to clarify the familial relationships between deities, briefly describe their functions and characterize each god's household, rather than to provide Sumerian deities with Akkadian equivalents.[37] The commentary, when present, is in Sumerian, rather than Akkadian, which is different from most lexical lists.[37] The gods do not appear to be separated into strictly Sumerian and Akkadian columns.[38] Furthermore, some gods are listed with no equivalents at all, for example Zababa英語Zababa, who was a well established deity.[39] Some deities listed are not Sumerian or Akkadian, but 埃蘭ite, "Subarian英語Subarian" (Hurrian英語Hurrian religion),[40] or Gutian英語Gutian people.[41] The list documents many associations between deities and aspects of their character which are otherwise unknown.[18] Explanations frequently use the sign MIN in a role analogous to the modern ditto mark英語ditto mark.[42]

The entry of each deity is followed by their epithets and alternate names, the name of their spouse, children, and finally servants, if any were known.[43] In some cases the chief attendant deity, so-called sukkal英語sukkal, is listed before the children.[44] Seemingly only the best established deities had a sukkal.[44] The number and precise designation of various divine servants varies, and there seemingly was no standard composition of a divine court, though some titles, such as "doorkeeper" (NI.GAB) or "counselor" (gu4.DÚB), recur more often than others.[44]

An = Anum consists of seven tablets.[45] The initial four tablets list the deities in order of seniority, alongside their courts, but the rest of the list does not appear to follow similar principles.[27] It is possible that it was a result of adding groups of deities from originally distinct texts to An = Anum without rearranging them.[27] Jeremiah Peterson remarks that the reliance on theological factors is nonetheless more evident in An = Anum than in any other known god list.[46] Some of the known copies preserve all the material on a single tablet,[45] with a brief summary marked by pairs of horizontal lines indicating the end of each originally separate section.[28] Copies of long works such as god lists or literary composition inscribed on a single tablet are known as dubgallu or tupkallu, or as "monster tablets."[25] YBC 2401 is one such example, and measures 30,5 x 39,5 centimeters (roughly 12 x 15 inches), which makes it one of the biggest clay tablets英語Clay tablet known.[47]

石牓 I

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石牓 I starts with 安努, Antu英語Antu (goddess)[48] and their ancestors.[49] It includes their various servants as well.[50] A sub-section is dedicated to Papsukkal英語Papsukkal and his circle, including his wife Amasagnudi英語Amasagnudi.[51]

The 恩利爾 section follows the Anu one. It begins with his ancestors, the so-called Enki-Ninki deities英語Enki-Ninki deities,[52] and includes his wife 寧利勒,[48] primordial deities Lugaldukuga英語Lugaldukuga (explained as Enlil's father) and Enmesharra英語Enmesharra,[53] as well as various courtiers, among them the goddess of writing, Nisaba英語Nisaba, and her husband Haia英語Haya (god), Enlil's sukkal Nuska英語Nuska and his wife Sadarnunna英語Sadarnunna,[48] the scribe goddess Ninimma英語Ninimma,[54] and the beer goddess 寧卡西.[55] A separate sub-section is dedicated to 尼努爾塔,[27] his wife Nin-Nibru, and his own courtiers.[48] The Syrian英語History of Syria god Dagan英語Dagan (god) also appears in the Enlil section.[56] It is additionally possible that a deity whose name is not preserved, identified as "Enlil of Subartu," might be Hurrian Kumarbi英語Kumarbi.[40]

石牓 II

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寧胡爾薩格 (Digirmah, Belet-ili) occupies the beginning of tablet II.[57] Deities listed in her section include her husband Shulpa'e英語Shul-pa-e,[58] her sons Panigingarra英語Panigingarra and Ashgi英語Ashgi,[59] the couple Lisin英語Lisin and Ninsikila,[60] and various courtiers.[61]

The same tablet also covers 恩基 (Ea), accompanied by his wife Damkina英語Damkina.[48] A sub-section is dedicated to 馬爾杜克[27] and includes his wife 薩爾帕尼.[62] 納布 appears in it as Marduk's sukkal alongside his wife Tashmetum英語Tashmetum,[63] but he is not yet identified as his son.[64] Other deities present on tablet II include courtiers of Enki, the river god Id, the fire god 吉比爾, and various minor deities associated with craftsmen and other professions.[48]

石牓 III

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石牓 III describes the moon god Sin (unusually not identified directly as a son of Enlil[65]), the sun god 沙瑪什 (Utu) and the weather god Adad英語Adad (Ishkur).[66] The circle of Sin includes his wife 寧伽勒[67] and various deities associated with cattle herding.[48] 南施 and deities associated with her, including her husband Nindara英語Nindara, who precedes her,[68] separate his section from that of Shamash.[69] While An = Anum appears to equate Nindara with Sin, there is no evidence for close association between Nanshe and the moon god otherwise.[70] The circle of the sun god includes his wife Aya英語Aya (goddess),[71] as well as two distinct groups of courtiers, deities of justice and deities of dreams.[48] The cattle god Sakkan英語Šumugan is included in this section too.[72]

While Sin and Shamash occur in the proximity of each other because they were viewed as father and son,[73] Adad is most likely included on this tablet because of the well established connection between him and Shamash.[66] The section dedicated to him includes his wife 沙拉 (女神), their children (such as Usuramassu英語Usuramassu),[74] as well as another weather god, Wer英語Wer (god),[75] though other foreign weather gods are absent, in contrast with a later god list, K 2100, whose Adad section contains "Subarian" (Hurrian) Teshub英語Teshub and Kassite英語Kassite deities Buriyash.[76] The tablet ends with a group of various gods mostly associated with Adad or Shamash, such as Shullat and Hanish英語Shullat and Hanish, though with some exceptions which were instead linked with Ea, Nisaba or Ishtar英語Ishtar.[76] It has been proposed that what unified these deities was their possible Syrian origin,[48] but this view is not universally accepted.[66]

石牓 IV

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石牓 IV documents the circle of Ishtar英語Ishtar (Inanna).[66] Due to its contents, it has been nicknamed "the Ištar tablet" by Richard L. Litke.[77] It is less well preserved than other tablets, and full restoration is presently impossible.[77] Among the deities listed are Ninegal英語Ninegal[78] and various astral deities,[79] such as Ninsianna英語Ninsianna[80] and Kabta英語Kabta.[81] It also most likely originally included Dumuzi英語Dumuzid and Nanaya英語Nanaya sub-sections, which are not preserved.[81] It ends with short sections dedicated to Ishara英語Ishara (who also appears in the Enlil section[56] and in the end of tablet III[66]) and Manzat英語Manzat (goddess), which do survive.[82]

石牓 V

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石牓 V starts with the deified hero Lugalbanda英語Lugalbanda and his wife 寧松,[83] but it also contains sections dedicated to Lugal-Marada, the tutelary god of Marad英語Marad,[48] the mongoose英語mongoose deity Ninkilim英語Ninkilim,[84] the agricultural god Urash英語Urash (god) (his court includes Lagamal英語Lagamal, in other lists present among underworld英語Ancient Mesopotamian underworld deities),[85] the war god Zababa英語Zababa (whose section also includes 內爾伽勒's sukkal Ugur英語Ugur (god), explicitly identified as such),[86] and a number of names which seem to be grouped together only because they belong to gods originating in 拉格什, among them Ningirsu.[27] This god was usually syncretised with Ninurta and as such regarded as a son of Enlil, but in this case appears on a different tablet.[27] Other deities of Lagash listed there include Bau英語Bau (goddess) and Gatumdag英語Gatumdag.[87] Juxtaposition of various deities originating in this area is not exclusive to An = Anum, as attested in a small fragment of an otherwise unknown god list found in Nippur.[88] The next sub-section is centered on medicine goddesses (Ninisina英語Ninisina, Ninkarrak英語Ninkarrak, Nintinugga英語Nintinugga, Gula英語Gula (goddess)) and their families (including Pabilsag英語Pabilsaĝ, 達木 and Gunura英語Gunura).[89] They are in turn followed by sections dedicated to the prison goddess 侖伽勒,[90] the underworld goddess 埃列什基伽勒,[91] a group of gods associated with snakes and the underworld (尼納祖, Ningishzida英語Ningishzida, Tishpak英語Tishpak, Inshushinak英語Inshushinak and Ishtaran英語Ištaran),[92] the pair Lugal-irra and Meslamta-ea英語Lugal-irra and Meslamta-ea,[93] who were also underworld deities, but have no apparent connection with the preceding gods,[92] and a number of minor figures of similar character, such as Lugal-a'abba ("lord of the sea").[94]

石牓 VI

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石牓 VI starts with 內爾伽勒, his titles, family and court (including Laṣ英語Laṣ, Mammitum英語Mamitu and Ishum英語Ishum),[95] continues with various figures explained as ilu lemnu ("evil god"), such as Kingaludda,[96] the weaver goddess 烏特圖,[97] a group of deities possibly originating in 迪爾蒙,[97] the Sebitti英語Sebitti and other groups of seven (as well as the closely connected Elamite goddess Narundi英語Narundi),[98] Amurru英語Amurru (god), the divine representation of Amorite英語Amorites nomads, and his wife Ashratum英語Ashratum,[99] the deified hero 吉爾伽美什[100] and his companion 恩奇杜,[48] a number of names belonging to deities of uncertain identity, assumed to be of very minor importance, and a list of collective terms for deities.[101]

石牓 VII

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石牓 VII lists various names of Marduk and of his throne bearer Mandanu英語Mandanu,[102] and is assumed to be a late addition.[103] According to Wilfred G. Lambert, it should be considered an appendix英語Addendum loosely connected with the rest of the composition, similar to the case of the final tablet of the standard edition of 吉爾伽美什史詩.[23]

影響

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對古代的影響

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An = Anum was itself most likely used as a model for other similar scholarly compositions, for example the so-called "Canonical Temple List," which documents temple names rather than god names, though the deities venerated in them are arranged according to similar theological principles.[1] In some cases, the order of deities in An = Anum has been used to support proposed restoration of passages in the Canonical Temple List, for example Andrew R. George英語Andrew R. George notes that the order in which temples of Enlil's courtiers are listed in the latter matches the order of these deities in the former, making it plausible that three missing lines referred to 寧卡西, Ninmada英語Ninmada and Ugelamma.[104]

Paul-Alain Beaulieu英語Paul-Alain Beaulieu proposed in 1992 that the changes in the religion of Seleucid Uruk were inspired by adherence to An = Anum.[105] The entire pantheon of the city was restructured, with Ishtar英語Ishtar, Nanaya英語Nanaya and their court, encompassing deities such as Usuramassu英語Usuramassu, surpassed in prominence by 安努 and Antu英語Antu (goddess).[106] While Anu was not completely absent from Uruk at any point in time between the third and first millennium BCE,[106] his position was that of a "figurehead" and "otiose deity," in contrast with An = Anum, where he is the foremost god.[107] Beaulieu considers the position of Marduk to be the main difference between An = Anum the Seleucid pantheon of Uruk, as the position of this god was much lower in the latter case, possibly due to theological conflict between Uruk and 巴比倫.[107] Today it is agreed that both the elevation of Anu and Antu and the introduction of many new deities, such as Amasagnudi英語Amasagnudi, relied on the study of this god list conducted by priests.[29]

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