Ekituškuga
Creators: Jamie Novotny
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/185814199
36.358948, 43.1519
- Uncertain: Conjectural location after Reade (2335 BC - 540 BC)
- Ekibikuga (Sumerian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Ekituškuga (Sumerian, 2000 BC - 1600 BC)
- ziggurat of Ištar (English, modern)
- Ekituškuga near Citadel Gate (2335 BC - 540 BC)
- Ekituškuga near Citadel Wall of Nineveh (2335 BC - 540 BC)
- Ekituškuga near Emašmaš (2335 BC - 540 BC)
- Ekituškuga at Nineveh/Ninos (2335 BC - 540 BC)
- Palace of Ashurbanipal near Ekituškuga (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Ezida near Ekituškuga (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Less than certain: Akītu-Temple of Ištar near Ekituškuga (1600 BC - 540 BC)
- Palace of Naqi'a near Ekituškuga (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Kidmuri Temple near Ekituškuga (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Palace of Sennacherib near Ekituškuga (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Sîn-Šamaš Temple near Ekituškuga (1000 BC - 540 BC)
unlocated, temple
Pleiades
The ziggurat is called Ekituškuga in an inscription of the Old Assyrian king Šamšī-Adad I and Ekibikuga in a text of the Neo-Assyrian king Ashurbanipal. According to Šamšī-Adad I, the Sargonic king Man-ištūšu worked on this building. The Middle Assyrian king Shalmaneser I completely rebuilt it after it had been damaged by an earthquake.
The ziggurat is still unlocated, but it is generally thought to have been not far from the south-west gate of the lštar Temple. This more or less follows what the Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib states in inscriptions recording the construction of his palace; the old South-West Palace’s eastern side was opposite the western face of the ziggurat. In 1929, in the area west of Emašmaš and northeast of Sennacherib’s palace, the British archaeologist R.C. Thompson discovered a "raised terrace or platform in the centre of the mound ... solidly built of rough-hewn stones, 8-9 feet high." It has been suggested that this might have been a precursor of the ziggurat built by Šamšī-Adad I in the Old Assyrian Period.
Jamie Novotny, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Ekituškuga: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/185814199> [accessed: 20 January 2020]
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