Nabarbi is a deity in Mesopotamian folklore, from Upper Mesopotamia. Nabarbi is a Hurrian tutelary goddess tied to a place called Nawar and chiefly worshiped in the proximity of the river Khabur, especially in Taite. She appears in Hurrian kaluti offering lists and purification (itkalzi) rituals, is invoked as a divine witness in treaties, and was adopted into Hittite and Emar contexts.
No mythic birth or creation narrative for Nabarbi is attested in the available sources. Evidence frames her as a localized tutelary/territorial goddess whose theonym is a possessive/locative construction ('she of Nawar'), tying divine identity to a place (Nawar / 'pasture') and indicating a social-religious bond between deity and locality rather than a cosmic origin myth.
No detailed physical description is preserved in the cited material. She is represented among Hurrian deities on the Yazılıkaya sanctuary (relief 51), an identification confirmed by an accompanying hieroglyphic Luwian inscription, but the sources do not record specific iconographic attributes.
Scholarly etymology links Nabarbi's name to Hurrian naw 'pasture', suggesting a pastoral or territorial tutelary aspect (e.g., association with pastures or cattle pastures). Textual evidence places her in itkalzi purification rituals and in at least one text she appears alongside Šauška in reference to the 'water of Šauška and Nabarbi', indicating an association with ritual purification and sanctified water. She is also attested as a divine witness in an international treaty, functioning as a local divine guarantor of oaths. In cultic lists (kaluti) she is grouped with other goddesses and in some sources is associated with the male deity Tašmišu (regarded as her husband) and with Šuwaliyat (the Hittite counterpart of Tašmišu).
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