Inmarmaru, city in Dibbarra epic, [533].
Invocations, [165];
in records of the 2nd Bab. period, [167];
combined invocations, [235];
where found, [235], [245];
motive and manner of, [236] ff.;
Tiglathpileser I., [236];
Ramman-nirari I., [237];
Ashurnasirbal, [237];
Shalmaneser II., [237];
Sargon II., [237];
Sennacherib, [238];
Esarhaddon, [238];
Ashurbanabal, [238];
gods in invocation and in actual worship, [238].
Irkalla, a designation of the netherworld, [563], [566];
name of the consort of the queen of Aralû, [563], [591];
identified with Nergal, [592].
Isaiah, prophet, [2].
Ish-gu-tur, temple of Nin-Mar in Mar, [100].
Ishi-milku, a foreign deity, [644].
Ishme-Dagan, king of Assyria, evidence of age of Dagan cult, [208].
Ishtar, goddess Nanâ, [82], [85], [202], [311], [643];
absorbs other deities, [82];
epithets, [83], [151]-2, [204], [237];
functions in B.-A., [83], [459];
functions in A., [83]-5;
in Gilgamesh epic, [84]-5, [482], [501], [563]-4;
zodiacal interpr., [82]-4, [310]-1;
relationship to Sin, [79], [84], [163], [565], [571];
relationship to Anu, [84]-5, [566];
significance of these relationships, [85];
variants, [82], [85], [202], [242];
temple at Agade, [117], [242];
temple at Calah, [151];
temple E-mash-mash, [152], [205], [227];
relationship to Sin and Shamash, [163], [571];
goddess of war, [83], [164], [204];
during Cassite and Nebuchadnezzar's I. reign, [164], [645];
variants of Assyrian Ishtar, [202];
mighty over the Anunnaki, [204];
milder nature in religious texts, [205];
mother of mankind, [204]-5, [237];
relationship to her devotees, [205];
temple Kidmuru, [202];
temples at Arbela, Nineveh, and Ashur, [205];
I. of Nineveh and I. of Arbela distinguished, [205];
Ab her sacred month, [205], [462], [685];
wife of Bel, [205];
Belit of the land ([151], [206]), [215], = Belit, [226];
temple in Uruk, [81], [242], [311], [531], [639];
worship in Uruk, [103], [242], [472], [475], [531] (see [Nanâ]);
wife of Ashur, [227];
associated with the great triad, [236];
Ishtar and Anu, names of west. gates of Sargon's II. palace, [237];
causes the inhabitants to flourish, [237] (cf. [204]);
temple at Babylon, [242] (cf. Ninmakh), [640];
in incantations, [273];
in hymns, [310];
temple E-tur-kalama, [311];
in a penitential psalm, [318];
prominence of cult of I. under Ashurnasirbal and before, [325], [342];
in oracles and omens, [343]-4;
= Venus as name of planet, [370], [458]-9, [571];
importance of Ishtar-Venus in omen literature, [371]-2;
I. appears in a dream to the king, [374];
personification of fertility, [459], [462], [482], [563], [587];
causes decline, [483], [563];
10th month sacred to I., Papsukal, and Anu, [463];
the Kizrêti, Ukhâti, and Kharimâti of I. in Uruk, [475], [485], [660];
relationship to Tammuz, [84], [482], [484], [547], [564], [574];
Ishtar's love fatal to her lovers, [482], [516];
I. and Eabani, [484], [486];
in the deluge, [501], [503]-4;
parallelism with Delila, [516];
I. in the lower world, [564];
the 6th month "the mission of Ishtar," [564], [684];
festival celebrated in Ab, [685];
correlated to Allatu, [587];
I. cult under Ashurbanabal, [85], [206], [238], [648];
cult under Nebuchadnezzar II., [648];
figurines of, [674].
Ishtaritu, general designation of Ishtar priestess, [660].
Ishum, god, [51];
identity with Pa-sag, [101];
in proper names of, 2nd Bab. period, [169];
messenger of Nusku, [280];
solar deity, [528];
local deity, [528];
attendant of Dibbarra, [529], [594];
describes Dibbarra's deeds, [530] ff.;
his wars, [533] ff.;
associated with Sibi, [533];
"the warrior," [533];
associated with Nergal, [594].