Barama
Eblaite · deity · eblaite 3rd millennium bce · Recorded classification
Barama was the wife of Kura and, like him, worshipped exclusively at Ebla in the third millennium BCE. She is named relatively rarely in the archive (a handful of offering lists and roughly twenty other administrative mentions), yet her rank is secure: she headed the pantheon together with Kura, and the royal couple of Ebla was conceived as the earthly counterpart of the divine pair. Archi connects her name to the Semitic root *brm, 'to be variegated/many-coloured'. She disappears from the record after the fall of the city.
Domains
- queenship
Powers
- to stand as the divine counterpart of the Eblaite queen
Epithets
- dam dKu-raAlfonso Archi, 'Studies in the Pantheon of Ebla,' Orientalia 63 (1994): 249-256. (secondary)
Relations
- spouse: KuraBarama is the wife of the city god Kura; with him she heads the Eblaite pantheon and forms the divine couple mirrored by the royal couple.Alfonso Archi, Ebla and Its Archives: Texts, History, and Society (Boston/Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015). (secondary)
Sources
- Barama was the consort of Kura and, with him, the co-head of the Eblaite pantheon, worshipped only at Ebla and tied to the queen in the royal wedding ritual.: 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)