Cult of Ninurta at Nippur and Kalhu | Atlas of Religious and Esoteric Lineages

Neutral catalog summary

About this record

Cult of Ninurta at Nippur and Kalhu is cataloged as a Historical religion / cult within Historical Religions & Mystery Cults. Its public geographic context is “Historical or contested polity; no modern country assigned” and its period or origin is “2nd–1st millennia BCE.” It is associated with the parent tradition “Mesopotamian temple religion.”

This summary is assembled only from the record fields shown below. It does not add ritual instructions, doctrinal claims or inferred geography.

Record fields

Alternate / historical names: Cult of Ninurta
Parent tradition: Mesopotamian temple religion
Public geographic context: Historical or contested polity; no modern country assigned
Period / origin: 2nd–1st millennia BCE
Living / historical status: Historical; no continuous cult institution
Access / protocol: Scholarly / historical only
Evidence status: Directly cited

Geography

Candidate

Historical or contested polity; no modern country assigned

Historical or contested context in the source record is not converted into a modern political claim.

Public geographic context is limited to country level or broader. A documented site may still be named as the record’s public identity, but no subnational location field or coordinates are published.

Where to read more

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Source 1oracc.museum.upenn.edu

Stable attribution

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Cult of Ninurta at Nippur and Kalhu. Atlas of Religious and Esoteric Lineages, record 4053. https://esotericlineages.com/entry/4053

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