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New Palace

a Pleiades name resource

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This palace of Nebuchadnezzar II is often referred to as the "New Palace," principally since it was built first the first time during the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Achaemenid-period texts referred to this royal residence at Babylon as ēkallu eššu ("new palace").

Romanized Name(s):
New Palace

Name as attested:

Language:
English

Name type:
geographic name

Accuracy of transcription:
accurate

Level of transcription completeness:
complete

Level of certainty in association between name and the place:
Certain

Temporal attestations:

twentieth century of the common era (confident)
twenty-first century of the common era (confident)

References:

See Further:

Pedersén 2021 87–101

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

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