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'''Mullissu''' is a goddess who is the consort of the [[Assyria]]n god [[Ashur (god)|Ashur]]. Mullissu may be identical with the [[Sumer]]ian goddess [[Ninlil]], wife of the god [[Enlil]], which would parallel the fact that Ashur himself was modeled on Enlil. Mullissu's name was written "<sup>d</sup>NIN.LÍL".<ref>Simo Parpola, The Murderer of Sennacherib," in ''Death in Mesopotamia'', CRRA 26 (= Mesopotamia 8; Copenhagen, 1984), pp. 171-182.</ref><ref name=Kessler>Karlheinz Kessler, “Mylissa, Mylitta,” in ''Brill’s New Pauly'', Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 27 January 2021 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e814100</ref> Mullissu is identified with [[Ishtar]] of Nineveh in the [[Neo-Assyrian Empire]] times.
Also proposed to be Mullissu is a goddess whom [[Herodotus]] called '''Mylitta''' and identified with [[Aphrodite]]. The name ''Mylitta'' may derive from '''Mulliltu''' or '''Mullitta''', the [[Babylonian language|Babylonian]] variant of ''Mullissu'', where one cult was connected with the Ekur temple in [[Nippur]] and the other with [[Kish (Sumer)]].<ref>Karlheinz Kessler and Christa Müller-Kessler, “Spätbabylonische Gottheiten in spätantiken mandäischen Texten,” ''Zeitschrift für Assyriologie'' 89, 1999, pp. 70–72.</ref><ref name=Kessler/> ''Mulliltum'' was an epithet of Ninlil which appears as ''Mullissu'' in [[Neo-Assyrian]] as wife of god Ashur.<ref>Simo Parpola, The Murderer of Sennacherib," in ''Death in Mesopotamia'', CRRA 26 (= Mesopotamia 8; Copenhagen, 1984), pp. 171-182; another Sumerian name for Enlil was ''Mullil'' > Akkadian and ''Mulliltu'' the reading of Ninlil, ''Mulliltu'' > Neo-Assyrian ''Mullissu''.</ref> She is spelled '''mlš''', here also as the consort of [[Ashur (god)|Ashur]] (''’šr''), in the [[Sfire]] inscription (A8) from Syria inscribed in [[Aramaic language|Old Aramaic]] (eighth century BCE).<ref>André Lemaire and Jean Marie Durand, ''Les inscriptions araméeens de Sfiré et l’Assyrie de Shamashi-ilu'' (Paris: Librairie Droz, 1984), pp. 113, 132.</ref><ref>Joseph A. Fitzmyer, ''The Aramaic Inscriptions of Sefire'' (Rome: Editrice Pontificio Biblico, 1995), p. 70.</ref> Her Late Babylonian cult is reflected in the spelling '''mwlyt''' (Mulit) as transmitted in the [[Mandaic language|Mandaic]] magical corpus of [[Late Antiquity]].<ref>Karlheinz Kessler and Christa Müller-Kessler, “Spätbabylonische Gottheiten in spätantiken mandäischen Texten,” ''Zeitschrift für Assyriologie'' 89, 1999, pp. 70–72.</ref><ref name=Kessler/>
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/amgg/listofdeities/ninlil/ Ancient Mesopotamian Gods and Goddesses: Ninlil (Mulliltu, Mullissu, Mylitta) (goddess)]
[[Category:メソポタミア神話]]
[[Category:Mesopotamian mythology]]
[[Category:Inanna]]
Also proposed to be Mullissu is a goddess whom [[Herodotus]] called '''Mylitta''' and identified with [[Aphrodite]]. The name ''Mylitta'' may derive from '''Mulliltu''' or '''Mullitta''', the [[Babylonian language|Babylonian]] variant of ''Mullissu'', where one cult was connected with the Ekur temple in [[Nippur]] and the other with [[Kish (Sumer)]].<ref>Karlheinz Kessler and Christa Müller-Kessler, “Spätbabylonische Gottheiten in spätantiken mandäischen Texten,” ''Zeitschrift für Assyriologie'' 89, 1999, pp. 70–72.</ref><ref name=Kessler/> ''Mulliltum'' was an epithet of Ninlil which appears as ''Mullissu'' in [[Neo-Assyrian]] as wife of god Ashur.<ref>Simo Parpola, The Murderer of Sennacherib," in ''Death in Mesopotamia'', CRRA 26 (= Mesopotamia 8; Copenhagen, 1984), pp. 171-182; another Sumerian name for Enlil was ''Mullil'' > Akkadian and ''Mulliltu'' the reading of Ninlil, ''Mulliltu'' > Neo-Assyrian ''Mullissu''.</ref> She is spelled '''mlš''', here also as the consort of [[Ashur (god)|Ashur]] (''’šr''), in the [[Sfire]] inscription (A8) from Syria inscribed in [[Aramaic language|Old Aramaic]] (eighth century BCE).<ref>André Lemaire and Jean Marie Durand, ''Les inscriptions araméeens de Sfiré et l’Assyrie de Shamashi-ilu'' (Paris: Librairie Droz, 1984), pp. 113, 132.</ref><ref>Joseph A. Fitzmyer, ''The Aramaic Inscriptions of Sefire'' (Rome: Editrice Pontificio Biblico, 1995), p. 70.</ref> Her Late Babylonian cult is reflected in the spelling '''mwlyt''' (Mulit) as transmitted in the [[Mandaic language|Mandaic]] magical corpus of [[Late Antiquity]].<ref>Karlheinz Kessler and Christa Müller-Kessler, “Spätbabylonische Gottheiten in spätantiken mandäischen Texten,” ''Zeitschrift für Assyriologie'' 89, 1999, pp. 70–72.</ref><ref name=Kessler/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
*[http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/amgg/listofdeities/ninlil/ Ancient Mesopotamian Gods and Goddesses: Ninlil (Mulliltu, Mullissu, Mylitta) (goddess)]
[[Category:メソポタミア神話]]
[[Category:Mesopotamian mythology]]
[[Category:Inanna]]
