Ereshkigal

c. 2100 BCE – 100 CEattested

Kutha

• Mesopotamian

Queen of the Mesopotamian underworld, where the dead eat dust and nobody is rewarded. When her sister came down uninvited she had her stripped at seven gates and hung on a hook.

Known for

• the seven gates
• an underworld with no reward
• the sister hung on a hook

Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.

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