Adamma
Eblaite · deity · eblaite 3rd millennium bce · Recorded classification
Adamma was a goddess worshipped at Ebla in the third millennium BCE, where she appears as the wife of Rasap (Resheph); the two were given offerings together on numerous occasions and were venerated jointly at the nearby towns of Hadani and Tunip. This consort-relationship is specific to the Eblaite corpus and does not recur in later traditions, where Adamma is otherwise documented in Hurrian sources and at Emar, often paired with the goddess Kubaba rather than with Resheph. Archi links her name tentatively to a root meaning 'blood/red' but regards its ultimate origin as uncertain.
Domains
- consort deity
Powers
- to receive cult jointly with her husband Rasap
Epithets
- dam dRa-sa-apAlfonso Archi, 'Studies in the Pantheon of Ebla,' Orientalia 63 (1994): 249-256. (secondary)
Relations
- spouse: ReshephAdamma is the wife of Rasap in the Eblaite tradition; they received cult together and were paired at Hadani and Tunip. The pairing is unique to Ebla.Alfonso Archi, Ebla and Its Archives: Texts, History, and Society (Boston/Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015). (secondary)
Sources
- Adamma was an Eblaite goddess attested as the wife of the plague-and-war god Rasap, with whom she received joint cult.: Alfonso Archi, Ebla and Its Archives: Texts, History, and Society (Boston/Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015). (secondary); Alfonso Archi, 'Studies in the Pantheon of Ebla,' Orientalia 63 (1994): 249-256. (secondary)