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Nordburg

a Pleiades name resource

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tags: ANE, Babylonian

The excavators of this palace of Nebuchadnezzar II referred to this building as the Nordburg ("North Castle") because it was the northernmost palace in the inner city of Babylon.

Romanized Name(s):
Nordburg

Name as attested:

Language:
German

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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