Resheph
Eblaite · deity · eblaite 3rd millennium bce · Recorded classification
Rasap, the Eblaite form of the West Semitic god Resheph, was one of the principal members of the Ebla pantheon in the third millennium BCE. A god of plague and war, he held one of the four named gates of the city and was venerated in several hypostases attached to nearby settlements, among them Rasap of Gunu (whose temple, e dRa-sa-ap gu-nu, has been used to restore the Ugaritic rsp gn) and Rasap of Tunip. The Eblaites identified him with the Mesopotamian Nergal. His wife at Ebla was the goddess Adamma, an association peculiar to the Eblaite tradition and not continued elsewhere.
Domains
- plague
- war
Powers
- to inflict plague and the death of battle
Epithets
- dRa-sa-ap gu-nuKIAlfonso Archi, Ebla and Its Archives: Texts, History, and Society (Boston/Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015). (secondary)
Relations
- spouse: AdammaIn the Eblaite texts Adamma is the wife of Rasap; the pair received offerings together on numerous occasions and were worshipped jointly at Hadani and Tunip.Alfonso Archi, Ebla and Its Archives: Texts, History, and Society (Boston/Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015). (secondary)
Sources
- Rasap (Resheph) was a major god of plague and war at Ebla, holder of one of the four city gates and equated by the Eblaites with Nergal.: Alfonso Archi, 'Studies in the Pantheon of Ebla,' Orientalia 63 (1994): 249-256. (secondary); Manfred Krebernik, Goetter und Mythen des Alten Orients (Munich: C. H. Beck, 2012). (secondary)