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Meaning of "hurrian"
hurrian (adjective) - relating to the Hurrians, an ancient people who lived in the Near East during the Bronze Age. This term is used in historical and archaeological contexts to describe the culture, language, or artifacts associated with the Hurrian civilization
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- A member of an ancient people who lived in northern Mesopotamia and created a powerful kingdom called Mitanni in the 16th-13th century BC.
- Of or pertaining to the Hurrians or their language or culture.
- The language of Hurrians, neither Indo-European nor Semitic, whose only known relative is the Urartian.
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Hurrian has at its disposal several paradigms for constructing relative clauses.
Hepit is the Hurrian goddess of the sky.
Hurrian cylinder seals were carefully carved and often portrayed mythological motifs.
She was the origin of the Hurrian cult.
No Hurrian had dreamed it possible to be delayed so long.
Ishara was also worshipped within the Hurrian pantheon.
Hurrian with a Hittite translation.
She became a great goddess of the Hurrian population.
Artashumara was a Hurrian pretender to the throne of Mitanni in the fourteenth century BC.
They are a key to the understanding of Hurrian culture and history.
A lion and a stone tablet bearing the earliest known text in Hurrian.
The enmity was probably aggravated by the Hurrian kingdom of Mitanni to the south.
The next most important group of gods is the Hurrian.
These are all Hurrian names.
The Louvre lion and accompanying stone tablet bearing the earliest known text in Hurrian.
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He is probably a Hurrian deity.
Surviving cuneiform inscriptions from the kingdom show that the Urartian language was related to Hurrian.
The Hurrian culture made a great impact on the religion of the Hittites.
His name seems to come from the Hurrian language.
It branched off from Hurrian at approximately the beginning of the second millennium BC.
The frieze around the warrior contained a cuneiform inscription in Hurrian dialect.
The largest and most influential Hurrian nation was the kingdom of Mitanni.
This famous inscription is the earliest known writing in the Hurrian language.
In Hurrian religion Anu is the sky god.
The inscription is the earliest known text written in the Hurrian language.
It shows Hurrian influence.
Most of the gods involved in this festival belonged to the Hurrian pantheon.
The Hurrian world.
The IndoAryan ruling class intermarried with the dominant Hurrian element in the population.
The Hurrian lands.
Symbols of the sun and the crescent moon appear joined together in the Hurrian iconography.
The Hurrian city.
Kirta is a legendary Hurrian king.
Hurrian Swadesh list.
The later kingdom of Urartu also venerated gods of Hurrian origin.
Artatama I was a king of the Hurrian kingdom of Mitanni in the late fifteenth century BC.
The Greek creation myth is similar to the Hurrian creation myth.
The approximate area of Hurrian settlement in the Middle Bronze Age is shown in purple.
The poorly attested Kassite language may have been related to Hurrian.
Nuhašše the Hurrian elements.
It has been argued that the worship of Attis drew on Hurrian myth.
The Nuzi was a Hurrian administrative center in the Hurrian capital at Kirkuk in northern Iraq.
He was a warrior god possibly identical with the Hurrian god Teshub.
The Hurrian possessive pronouns can not occur independently, but are only enclitic.
The Sumerians borrowed their copper terminology from the Hurrian vocabulary.
As the last two examples shows, the Hurrian geminates are also absent in Urartian.
The Iron Age Urartian language is closely related to or a direct descendant of Hurrian.
The Khabur River valley became the heart of the Hurrian lands for a millennium.
Not many examples of Hurrian metal work have survived, except from the later Urartu.
Material culture from these layers showed links with the Hurrian and Kassite cultures.
