Nisaba
Mesopotamian · deity · mythic · deity
Nisaba holds grain and writing in the same hands, which is exactly right for a civilisation whose script began as a way of counting barley. Scribes invoked her, the schools were hers, and a great many Sumerian compositions close with the formula 'Nisaba be praised' — the ancient equivalent of a colophon. Her attribute is a tablet of lapis lazuli on which measures and stars are recorded. Her cult sat at Eresh and later at Nippur, and her consort is Haya.
Children
Domains
- writing
- harvest
Powers
- to hold the tablet of lapis lazuli on which the measures and the stars are written
Relations
- spouse: Haya
Sources
- Reference treatment of Nisaba, her spheres, her cult centres and her consort.