Subject: Monumental Inscriptions from the Biblical World; Akkadian Monumental Inscriptions; Building and Display Inscriptions; Early Old Babylonian Inscriptions
Rim-Sin (2.102C)
(1–16) For the god Ninsiʾana, god whose station shines from clear heaven, whose light shines f…
Commentary
A Sumerian cone inscription from Ur records Rim-Sin’s construction of the temple of Ninsiʾana, here taken to be a male deity, who (as noted, see COS COSB.2.139A) was likely a manifestation of the planet Venus as “Morning Star.”