Documented later personal use
Shamiram
No secure literal translation is asserted; historical and legendary identities must be separated.
- Language layer
- Ancient name and later Assyrian naming traditions
- Written spelling
- Not independently checked
- Personal-name evidence
- Sammu-ramat in Assyrian inscriptions; Šamīrām in twentieth-century Iranian Assyrian naming.
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Meaning, use and context
Historical Sammu-ramat was the wife of Šamši-Adad V and mother of Adad-nerari III. The later figure Semiramis belongs to a much larger legendary tradition and cannot be treated as a complete biography of the historical woman.
Oracc supplies inscriptional name forms and discusses the royal women. Maria Macuch’s Iranica account independently documents Šamīrām as a woman’s name in twentieth-century Iranian Assyrian communities.
This is useful evidence for a particular period and community, not proof of current worldwide popularity. A literal meaning, reviewed modern Syriac spelling and licensed pronunciation recording remain unverified.
Evidence for this entry
- Oracc — Sammu-ramat name glossary ↗
Inscriptional personal name.
- Oracc — Šalmaneser III and royal women ↗
Historical queen distinguished from legend.
- Maria Macuch — Assyrians in Iran, Iranica ↗
Twentieth-century naming context.
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