Editing Ninhursag (section)

===Ninmaḫ===

Ninmah ("great lady") was one of the most common epithets of Ninhursag alongside Dingirmah. The name was already attested in [[Shuruppak|Fara]] and pre-Sargonian [[Lagash]], and primarily occurred in liturgical and literary texts.{{sfn|Cavigneaux|Krebernik|1998a|p=462–463}} An Akkadian form, Ereshmah (written syllabically as ''e-re-eš-ma-aḫ''), was attested at Ugarit, and was either a variant or the correctly written form of the name.{{sfn|Krebernik|1997|p=505}}

Like Dingirmah, Ninmah was initially an epithet of Ninhursag who later developed into a separate goddess at the end of the Early Dynastic period. In Lagash, King [[Entemena]] built a temple that was at first dedicated to Ninhursag, and then rededicated to Ninmah.{{sfn|Asher-Greve|Westenholz|2013|p=59}}

In a text known as ''Archive of Mystic Heptads'', Ninmah was labeled separately from Ninhursag as the "Bēlet-ilī of the Emaḫ temple" in an enumeration of seven goddesses of birth.{{sfn|Asher-Greve|Westenholz|2013|p=129}}