Visual Timeline: Nanna

To navigate the timeline, click and drag it with your mouse, or click on the timeline overview on the bottom.

3500 BCE 3400 BCE 3300 BCE 3200 BCE 3100 BCE 3000 BCE 2900 BCE 2800 BCE 2700 BCE 2600 BCE 2500 BCE 2400 BCE 2300 BCE 2200 BCE 2100 BCE 2000 BCE 1900 BCE 1800 BCE 1700 BCE 1600 BCE 1500 BCE 1400 BCE 1300 BCE 1200 BCE 1100 BCE 1000 BCE 900 BCE 800 BCE 700 BCE 600 BCE 500 BCE 400 BCE 300 BCE 200 BCE 100 BCE 0 CE 100 CE 200 CE  
 
3500 BCE: Nanna first mentioned by name in Sumerian writings.
 
 
2285 BCE - 2250 BCE: Life of Enheduanna who elevates Nanna through her poems and hymns.
 
 
2261 BCE - 2224 BCE: Life of Naram-Sin of Akkad who honors Nanna by taking his name.
 
2047 BCE - 1750 BCE: Nanna is especially popular during the Ur III Period, seen as judge of the dead.
 
912 BCE - 612 BCE: Nanna worshipped throughout the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
 
 
556 BCE - 539 BCE: Mother of King Nabonidus of Babylon holds the position of High Priestess of Nanna at Harran while his daughter does the same at Ur, thus consolidating the king's power.
 
250 CE: Nanna continues to be worshiped in Syria.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3500 BCE 3100 BCE 2700 BCE 2300 BCE 1900 BCE 1500 BCE 1100 BCE 700 BCE 300 BCE