Kamish

Eblaite · deity · eblaite 3rd millennium bce · deity

Kamish (Eblaite Kamis) was a deity of the Ebla pantheon in the mid-third millennium BCE, appearing prominently in personal names, offering lists and administrative records. He received dedications and sacrifices, possessed a sanctuary, and had a month of the local calendar named for offerings to him. The same divine name lies behind the city of Carchemish (Kar-Kamis) and recurs in the pantheon of Ugarit; its much later identification with the Moabite national god Kamosh (Chemosh) of the ninth century BCE is regarded as uncertain, given the long gap in attestation and the absence of the name from intervening Amorite onomastics.

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