Editing Nergal (section)

===Foreign deities===
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[[Resheph]], a western god of war and plague, was already associated with Nergal in [[Ebla]] in the third millennium BCE, though the connection was not exclusive, as he also occurs in contexts which seem to indicate a relation with Ea (known in Ebla as [[Hayya]]) instead.{{sfn|Archi|2019|p=43}} Furthermore, the Eblaite scribes never used Nergal's name as a logographic representation of Resheph's.{{sfn|Archi|2019|p=43}} According to Alfonso Archi, it is difficult to further speculate about the nature of Resheph and his relation to other deities in Eblaite religion due to lack of information about his individual characteristics.{{sfn|Archi|2019|p=43}} The equivalence between Nergal and the same western gods is also known from [[Ugarit]],{{sfn|Wiggermann|1998|p=218}} where Resheph was additionally associated with the planet Mars, much like Nergal in Mesopotamia.{{sfn|Wyatt|2007|p=62}} Documents from [[Emar]] on the Euphrates mention a god called "Nergal of the KI.LAM" (seemingly a term designating a [[market square|market]]), commonly identified with Resheph by researchers.{{sfn|Rutherford|2019|p=84}} Additionally, "Lugal-Rasap" functioned as a title of Nergal in Mesopotamia according to god lists.{{sfn|Wiggermann|1998|p=218}}

It has been proposed that in [[Urkesh]], a [[Hurrians|Hurrian]] city in northern Syria, Nergal's name was used to represent a local deity of Hurrian origin [[Logogram|logographically]].{{sfn|Archi|2013|p=8}} Two possible explanations have been proposed: [[Aštabi]] and [[Kumarbi]].{{sfn|Archi|2013|p=8}} The former was a god of Eblaite origin,{{sfn|Archi|2013|p=14}} later associated with [[Ninurta]] rather than Nergal,{{sfn|Archi|2013|p=10}} while the latter was the Hurrian "father of the gods", usually associated with Enlil{{sfn|Archi|2013|p=1}} and [[Dagon|Dagan]].{{sfn|Archi|2013|p=10}} {{ill|Gernot Wilhelm|de}} concludes in a recent publication that the identification of Nergal in the early Urkesh inscriptions as Kumarbi is not implausible, but at the same remains impossible to conclusively prove.{{sfn|Wilhelm|2014a|p=418}} He points out that it is also not impossible that Kumarbi only developed as a distinct deity at a later point in time.{{sfn|Wilhelm|2014a|p=418}} Alfonso Archi notes that it also possible the god meant is Nergal himself, as he is attested in other Hurrian sources as an actively worshiped deity.{{sfn|Archi|2013|p=8}}

In the [[Yazılıkaya]] sanctuary, Nergal's name was apparently applied to a so-called "sword god" depicted on one of the reliefs, most likely a presently unidentified local god of death.{{sfn|Wiggermann|1998a|p=225}}

The Elamite god [[Simut (god)|Simut]] was frequently associated with Nergal, shared his association with the planet Mars and possibly his warlike character,{{sfn|Henkelman|2011|p=512}} though unlike his Mesopotamian counterpart he was not an underworld deity.{{sfn|Potts|2010|p=58}} In one case he appears alongside Laṣ.{{sfn|Lambert|1983a|p=507}} Wouter Henkelman additionally proposes that "Nergal of Hubshal (or Hubshan)" known from Assyrian sources was Simut.{{sfn|Henkelman|2011|p=512}} However, other identities of the deity identified by this moniker have been proposed as well, with [[Volkert Haas]] instead identifying him as Ugur.{{sfn|Haas|2015|p=367}} Yet another possibility is that Emu was the deity meant.{{sfn|Wiggermann|1998|p=218}}

Based on [[lexical lists]], two [[Kassite deities|Kassite gods]] were identified with Nergal, Shugab and Dur.{{sfn|Wiggermann|1998|p=218}}

In a Middle Assyrian god list, "Kammush" appears among the epithets of Nergal.{{sfn|Lambert|1980|p=335}} According to Wilfred G. Lambert it cannot be established whether this indicates an equation with either the third millennium BCE god [[Kamiš|Kamish]] known from the Ebla texts, or the [[Iron Age]] god [[Chemosh]] from [[Moab]].{{sfn|Lambert|1980|p=335}}

In late, [[Hellenistic period|Hellenistic]] sources from [[Palmyra]], [[Hatra]] and [[Tarsus, Mersin|Tarsus]] [[Heracles]] served as the ''[[interpretatio graeca]]'' of Nergal.{{sfn|Wiggermann|1998|p=218}} Heracles and Nergal were also both (at different points in time) associated with the Anatolian god [[Sandas]].{{sfn|Taracha|2009|p=113}}