Barama (Eblaite: dba-ra-ma[1]) was a goddess worshiped in the Syrian city of Ebla in the third millennium BCE as the wife of its tutelary god, Kura.
[8] Archi also considers it possible that her name belonged to a linguistic substrate, like these of other deities worshiped in Ebla, such as Kura, Hadabal, Išḫara, Adamma or Aštabi.
[9] The name-giving customs at Ebla are assumed to largely reflect an older tradition that the pantheon of the city, and the most common theophoric elements are not personified deities, but the words damu and lim, representing the deified concepts of, respectively, kinship ties and clan organization.
[12] Furthermore, functionaries belonging to the cult of Barama are alluded to in the text ARET 7.13, dealing with purchases of clothing for individuals involved in the worship of both her and Adamma.
[13] It is possible that two damâtum (a type of betyl-like boundary stone to which religious importance was assigned in Ebla), were dedicated jointly to Kura and Barama.
[20] The ceremony was a royal ascension ritual, though despite direct statements confirming this in Eblaite texts, it appears that both Ishar-Damu and Irkab-Damu had already been rulers for multiple years when they undertook it during their respective reigns.