Sumerian · God or goddess · Certain
Nanshe
Nanshe is a Sumerian goddess rooted in the Lagash-region cult landscape. Her hymn connects her with a city rising from water, abundance, justice for widows and orphans, and ordered ritual, while an official Louvre record identifies an Old Babylonian goddess-with-geese plaque as Nanshe.
Profile research status
This stable record is still in evidence review. Its current identity, cultural scope, image, and direct source records are available here; a complete history, myth, worship, iconography, relationship, and reception profile is not yet claimed.
Direct connections and evidence
No direct correspondence has sufficient reviewed evidence here yet.
Archive scope and classification
- Figure classification
- God or goddess · certain
- Pantheon or tradition shelf
- Sumerian
- Cultures
- Sumerian
- Traditions
- Sumerian religious traditions
- Periods
- Unspecified
- Places
- Unspecified
Identity and a conservative image prompt are grounded in accession-level historical comparanda; textual, cultic, and relational extraction remains incomplete.