Sin
c. 2600 BCE – 100 CEattested
Ur
- Mesopotamian
Moon god of Ur, whose crescent was a boat and whose priestess-daughter Enheduanna wrote the earliest poetry signed with an author's name. The month was his unit, which made him the keeper of the calendar.
Known for
- the crescent as a boat
- the calendar as his gift
- Enheduanna as his priestess
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.