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Eʾesirkalama

a Pleiades place resource

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tags: ANE, Babylonian

The temple of the god Pisangunuk, Eʾesirkalama (“House of the Street of the Land”), was located in the Kumar district of Babylon, in the western half of the inner city. According to the Babylonian topographical text Tintir = Babylon Tablet IV, it was one of seven temples in that part of Babylon.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/116348460

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
32.535049475, 44.420213075

Locations:

None

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Eʾesirkalama (Sumerian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- bīt Pisangunuk (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)

Eʾesirkalama makes connections with:

Eʾesirkalama part of (physical/topographic) Babylon (720 BC - 540 BC)
Eʾesirkalama part of (physical/topographic) Kumar (720 BC - 540 BC)

Eʾesirkalama receives connections from:

None

Place type:
unlocated, temple

References:

Evidence:

BTTo Tintir IV

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jamie Novotny, 'Eʾesirkalama: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/116348460> [accessed: 19 April 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/116348460 |title=Places: 116348460 (Eʾesirkalama) |author=Novotny, J. |accessdate=April 19, 2024 6:03 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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