13 Facts About Siduri

Siduri, or more accurately Siduri, is a character in the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Siduri is named Nahmazulel or Nahmizulen in the preserved fragments of Hurrian and Hittite translations.

Possible existence of Biblical and Greek reflections of the Siduri passage is a subject of scholarly debate.

Name Siduri is often transcribed as Siduri, but based on alternate orthographies from outside the Epic of Gilgamesh Andrew R George concludes that the former spelling is more accurate.

Siduri's name is preceded by the dingir sign, so-called "divine determinative, " and it is assumed that she should be understood as a deity.

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Siduri proposes that this term, functioning in this context as an epithet, was later reinterpreted as a given name in the standard Babylonian version.

Siduri is attested as an epithet of Ishtar in three Mesopotamian sources, Hymn to the Queen of Nippur, the god list An = Anum and the incantation series Surpu.

Siduri concluded Siduri as described in the Epic of Gilgamesh cannot be Ishtar.

Form of Ishtar referred to as Siduri was Sarrat-Nippuri worshiped in the E-baradurgarra temple in Nippur.

Siduri is first attested in sources from the Kassite period.

An unnamed alewife who corresponds to Siduri appears already in an Old Babylonian version of the Epic of Gilgamesh which likely originated in Sippar.

Tzvi Abusch's speculative proposal that a third, not preserved, version of the scene involved Siduri proposing to marry Gilgamesh is regarded as unsubstantiated.

Siduri incorrectly referred to Siduri as portrayed in the Epic of Gilgamesh as a "form of Ishtar" to try to reconcile the differences between her and Circe, especially the association with wild animals exhibited only by the former.