Etemenanki
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
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Last modified
Jan 25, 2021 11:41 AM
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History
tags:
ANE,
Babylonian
The ziggurat of the god Marduk at Babylon. The Sumerian ceremonial name Etemenanki means "House, Foundation Platform of Heaven and Underworld."
500 km
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/142907963
32.53632775, 44.42108445
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Etemenanki (720 BC - 330 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Etemenanki (Sumerian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Etemenanki located at Babylon (720 BC - 330 BC)
- Etemenanki part of (physical/topographic) Eridu (720 BC - 330 BC)
- Etemenanki located near Esagila (720 BC - 330 BC)
- Ay-ibūr-šabû located near Etemenanki (720 BC - 100 BC)
temple, ziggurat
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Some interpreters have drawn connections between Etemenanki and the "Tower of Babel" known from the biblical story.
Jamie Novotny, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Etemenanki: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/142907963> [accessed: 31 March 2025]
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