Adad guppi autobiography in five short
Adad guppi autobiography in five short
Adad guppi autobiography in five short sentences.
Adad-guppi
Assyrian priestess of the moon god Sin
Adad-guppi (Babylonian cuneiform: Adad-gûppîʾ;[1] c. BC), also known as Addagoppe, was a devotee of the moon godSîn in the northern Assyrian city of Harran, and the mother of King Nabonidus (ruled – BC) of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.[2]
Life
Background
In her inscriptions, Adad-guppi claimed that Nabonidus was of the dynastic line of Ashurbanipal (r.&#;– BC), king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
According to her inscriptions, Adad-guppi was born in Ashurbanipal's twentieth year as king. At the time of her birth, Harran had been a major Assyrian stronghold and when the Neo-Assyrian Empire fell in BC, Harran was the capital of its government in exile.
On account of her claims in regards to Nabonidus being of Sargonid (Ashurbanipal's dynasty) ancestry, Stephanie Dalley considered it in "almost certain" that Adad-guppi was a daughter of Ashurbanipal.
Michael B.
Dick opposed Dalley's conviction in , point