Cuthah

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Cuthah was an ancient Mesopotamian city best known as the principal cult center of the underworld god Nergal.

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Cuthah canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Mesopotamian city
archaeological site
archaeologicalRemainsInclude cuneiform tablets
inscribed bricks
temple ruins
associatedWith death
underworld
coordinateRoleInMythology gateway to the underworld
country Iraq
culture Akkadian
Babylonian
deityTypeVenerated plague god
war god
excavatedBy Hormuzd Rassam
excavationCentury 19th century
hasAlternativeName Kutha
hasAlternativeTransliteration Kutu
hasBiblicalEthnonym Cuthites
hasTemple E-meslam
linked to: E-Meslam
historicalEra Bronze Age
Iron Age
knownFor association with the underworld
cult of Nergal
languageUsed Akkadian
locatedIn Babylonia
linked to: Babylon

Mesopotamia
mainTempleDedicatedTo Nergal
majorDeityWorshiped Nergal
mentionedIn 2 Kings 17:24
Hebrew Bible
linked to: Tanakh

cuneiform texts
near Babylon
modern Tell Ibrahim
partOf ancient Near East
periodOfFlourishing Neo-Babylonian period
Old Babylonian period
politicalEntityDuringAntiquity Achaemenid Empire
Babylonian Empire
Neo-Babylonian Empire
principalCultCenterOf Nergal
region central Mesopotamia
religion Mesopotamian religion
religiousRole major cult center
status abandoned city
typeOfDeityCult underworld god cult

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Nergal majorCultCenter Cuthah
Kutha hasAlternativeName Cuthah