Nadītu (sometimes romanized as naditu, with the long vowel omitted) were a social class in ancient Mesopotamia, attested only in the Old Babylonian period...

as priestesses. In Babylonia they occupied a position analogous to the nadītu, and were similarly forbidden from having children, though not from marriage...

inscriptions pertaining to this city mention her. She was also associated with the Nadītu community inhabiting it. She is less well attested in the other cult center...

"house of heaven" in Uruk was the greatest of these. The temple housed Nadītu, priestesses of the goddess. The high priestess would choose for her bed...

male subordinate. Belassunu was Iltani's sister. There were at least three naditu priests named Iltani: the sister of King Hammurabi, the daughter of King...

is known from the cuneiform tablets on which she wrote. Amat-Mamu was a Naditu priestess and temple scribe in Sippar, in ancient Babylonia. We know she...

special group connected to Shamash in Sippar were women referred to as nadītu. Their existence is particularly well attested in the Old Babylonian period...

Signs Cuneiform Abbess nin-diĝir ēntu SAL.TUG2.AN 𒊩𒌆𒀭 Priestess lukur nadītu SAL.ME 𒊩𒈨 Nun nugig qadištu NU.GIG 𒉡𒍼 Hierodule Priestess nubar kulmašītu...

transacted business, and initiated the hieros gamos with priests and kings. Nadītu served as priestesses in the temples of Inanna in the city of Uruk. They...

Abu-Mahmud Khujandi, Transoxanian astronomer and mathematician. Amat-Mamu, a Naditu priestess and temple scribe in Sippar, in ancient Babylonia. Muhammad Yunus...

on a wax or chalk tablet. Ahmes, 15th Dynasty Egyptian scribe Amat-Mamu, Naditu priestess and Babylonian temple scribe Amina, bint al-Hajj ʿAbd al-Latif...

Ishtar. Puabi was a NIN, an Akkadian priestess of Ur in the 26th century BC. Nadītu, sometimes described as priestesses in modern literature, are attested from...

of the word, which apparently could be a synonym of the terms lukur and nadītu as well. In one case, Telītu is given as the explanation of Zib, one of...

god, is accepting of these people and assigns them roles in society as naditu (priestesses) and girsequ (servants to the king). The Akkadian mythical...

man named Kalkatum married Dabitum, who was the adoptive daughter of a Nadītu woman and almost certainly a former slave, in the fourth year of Hammurabi's...

specialists and even farmers. She considers it possible that they were similar to naditu of Shamash and Aya from Sippar, but admits not enough data is available...

Alumbiumu was smitten by weapons". A royal daughter of Alumbiumu was made nadītu at Sippar, during the reign of Sumu-la-el. Light occupation occurred in...

Baltimore, pp. 91–200, 1975 Barberon, Lucile, "To Dedicate or Marry a Nadîtu-Woman of Marduk in Old Babylonian Society", La famille dans le Proche-Orient...

Retrieved 2022-10-24. Barberon, Lucile (2014). "To Dedicate or Marry a Nadîtu-Woman of Marduk in Old Babylonian Society". La famille dans le Proche-Orient...

made between the holders of this office and Mesopotamian ereš-dingir and nadītu. In Eblaite sources, Adamma appears as the spouse of Resheph. Eleven cases...