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.