AMURRU

AMURRU: translation

   1. Original home of the Amorites.

   2. Semitic godand tutelary deity of the Amorites whose name first appeared in the personal names of people during the Akkadian period. He had at least three temples in Babylon. To assimilate this “man of the desert,” he was officially married to a Sumerian goddess: one myth describes how he wooed and won the daughter of Numushda, much against the latter’s initial misgivings about someone belonging to a people “who do not know bread.” In the Babylonian tradition his wife was Belet-Seri (“Lady of the Desert”).

   3. The term amurru was also used to designate the language and at later times the western border of Babylonia.