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Eʾešmah

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jamie Novotny

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Feb 03, 2021 10:48 AM — History

tags: ANE, Babylonian

The temple of the god Ea, Eʾešmah (“Exalted House”), 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/130405658

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
32.532347, 44.41473

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Representative Locations:
- Less than certain: Proposed location of Eʾešmah (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Eʾešmah (Sumerian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- bīt Ea (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)

Eʾešmah makes connections with:

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

Eʾešmah receives connections from:

None

Place type:
unlocated, temple

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jamie Novotny, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Eʾešmah: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/130405658> [accessed: 19 April 2024]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/130405658 |title=Places: 130405658 (Eʾešmah) |author=Novotny, J. |accessdate=April 19, 2024 8:55 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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