God Shelardi is probably depicted on a cylinder print , discovered during excavations at Karmir Blur ; impression, Historical Museum of Armenia
Shelardi ( Urartian. D ši-e-la-ar-di ) is the lunar deity of the Urartian pantheon .
The Urartian religion was mainly borrowed by the Urartians in Mesopotamia . God Shelardi corresponded to the Mesopotamian god Sin [1] .
According to Urartian cuneiform texts, the sacrifice for the god Shelardi was to be one bull and two sheep [2] .
See also
- Urartu
- Religion Urartu
- List of Urartian gods
Literature
- Piotrovsky B. B. Van Kingdom (Urartu) / Otv. ed. I.A. Orbeli . - Moscow: Publishing House of Oriental Literature, 1959. - 286 p. - 3500 copies.
- Melikishvili G.A. Urartian wedge-shaped inscriptions // Bulletin of Ancient History. - Moscow, 1953 - 1954. - No. 1 - 4, 1953; 1, 1954 .
Notes
- ↑ Piotrovsky B. B. The Kingdom of Van (Urartu) / Otv. ed. I.A. Orbeli . - Moscow: Publishing house of Oriental literature, 1959. - S. 226. - 286 p. - 3500 copies.
- ↑ Melikishvili G.A. Urartian wedge-shaped inscriptions // Bulletin of Ancient History. - Moscow, 1953 - 1954. - No. 1 - 4, 1953; 1, 1954 .