God or goddess · Semitic
A-SA-MU-NE
Eshmun (healing deity)
- Reading
- ʾAšmūn
- Type
- God or goddess Probable
- Language
- Semitic Probable
- Sites
- Zakros
- Attestations
- 1
- Lexicon
- A-SA-MU-NE
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry A-SA-MU-NE.
- Phoenicianʾšmn ʾEšmūn, god of Sidon and of healing: bt lʾšmn ‘a temple for Eshmun’ (KAI 14:16–17; KAI 15–16); ʾšmn mʾrḥ ‘Eshmun the Host’, who healed the dedicant (KAI 66:1–2) (Krahmalkov 2000, 82–84)
- Punicʾšmn in names from Sidon, Cyprus, Sardinia, Carthage, Spain and Italy: ʾšmnytn ‘Eshmun has given’, ʾšmnʿzr ‘Eshmun, help!’, ʾšmnʾdn ‘Eshmun is lord’, ʿbdʾšmn ‘servant of Eshmun’ (Benz 1972, 70–73, 278–279)
- Ugariticšmn (III) DN Šamnu, the noun ‘oil’ as a god’s name, two birds l šmn ‘for Šamnu’ (KTU 1.164:9; Pardee 2002, 75, 283), the later Eshmun (DULAT 817)
- AkkadianᵈIa-su-mu-nu beside ᵈMi-il-qar-tu in Esarhaddon’s treaty with Baal of Tyre (SAA 2 5 r. iv 14′); ᵈIa-su-mu-na (SAA 2 2 r. vi 22); /ʾAsmūn/ (Krahmalkov 2000, 82)