Shulmanu or Shulman (

Assyrian Akkadian Akkadian ( ; )John Huehnergard & Christopher Woods, "Akkadian and Eblaite", ''The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages''. Ed. Roger D. Woodard (2004, Cambridge) Pages 218–280 was an East Semitic language that is attested ...

: ''Salmānu'', Babylonian Akkadian: ''Šulmānu'') was an ancient Mesopotamian deity. The deity is only ever recorded as having been worshipped by the ancient

Assyrians Assyrians (, ) are an ethnic group indigenous to Mesopotamia, a geographical region in West Asia. Modern Assyrians share descent directly from the ancient Assyrians, one of the key civilizations of Mesopotamia. While they are distinct from ot ...

, in contrast to many other deities of the Mesopotamian pantheon which were more universal, and was particularly popular in the

Middle Assyrian period The Middle Assyrian Empire was the third stage of Assyrian history, covering the history of Assyria from the accession of Ashur-uballit I 1363 BC and the rise of Assyria as a territorial kingdom to the death of Ashur-dan II in 912 BC. ...

. The deity's name was incorporated into the name Shalmaneser, assumed as a regnal name by five Assyrian kings from

Shalmaneser I Shalmaneser I (𒁹𒀭𒁲𒈠𒉡𒊕 md''sál-ma-nu-SAG'' ''Salmanu-ašared''; 1273–1244 BC or 1265–1235 BC) was a king of Assyria during the Middle Assyrian Empire. He was the son and successor of Adad-nirari I. Reign Year 1: According ...

(1274–1245 BC) to

Shalmaneser V Shalmaneser V (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , meaning "Salmānu is foremost"; Biblical Hebrew: ) was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 727 BC to his deposition and death in 722 BC. Though Shalmaneser V's brief reign is poorly known from conte ...

(727–722 BC). The literal translation of the name ''Salmānu'' is "friendly one"; it is possible that Shulmanu was a friendly manifestation of the Assyrian national deity Ashur.

References

* {{Cite book, last=Yamada, first=Keiko, title="Now It Happened in Those Days": Studies in Biblical, Assyrian, and Other Ancient Near Eastern Historiography Presented to Mordechai Cogan on His 75th Birthday, last2=Yamada, first2=Shiego, publisher=Eisenbrauns, year=2017, isbn=978-1575067612, editor-last=Baruchi-Unna, editor-first=Amitai, volume=2, location=Winona Lake, Indiana, pages=, chapter=Shalmaneser V and His Era, Revisited, editor-last2=Forti, editor-first2=Tova, editor-last3=Aḥituv, editor-first3=Shmuel, editor-last4=Ephʿal, editor-first4=Israel, editor-last5=Tigay, editor-first5=Jeffrey H., chapter-url=https://www.academia.edu/35496181/Shalmaneser_V_and_His_Era_Revisited_in_A_Baruchi_Unna_et_al_eds_Now_It_Happened_in_Those_Days_Studies_in_Biblical_Assyrian_and_Other_Ancient_Near_Eastern_Historiography_Presented_to_Mordechai_Cogan_on_His_75th_Birthday_Vol_2_Winona_Lake_IN_2017_pp_387_442?auto=download Mesopotamian gods