Ezida
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- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location of the Nabû Temple (1000 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Less than certain: Ezida located near Akītu-Temple of Ištar (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Ezida located near Citadel Gate (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Ezida located near Citadel Wall of Nineveh (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Ezida located near Ekituškuga (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Ezida located near Emašmaš (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Ezida located at Nineveh/Ninos (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Kidmuri Temple located near Ezida (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Nineveh Archive 5 located near Ezida (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Palace of Ashurbanipal located near Ezida (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Palace of Naqi'a located near Ezida (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Palace of Sennacherib located near Ezida (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Sîn-Šamaš Temple located near Ezida (1000 BC - 540 BC)
temple
Pleiades
According to a chronographic text referred to in scholarly literature as the Eponym Chronicle, the Nabû temple at Nineveh was founded and inaugurated in the years 788 and 787 B.C. (reign of Adad-nārārī III). This statement is supported by the discovery of inscribed bricks in the ruins of the temple. Ezida was later rebuilt by Sargon II, Esarhaddon, and Ashurbanipal; the latter ruler greatly expanded its courtyard, which he paved with small inscribed stone slabs. King Sennacherib is known to have renovated a shrine of the god Ḫaya (the god of scribes), but it is uncertain whether this sanctuary was part of the Ezida temple at Nineveh or was located elsewhere (possibly in Ashur).
The temple was excavated in 1904-05 and 1927-28.
Jamie Novotny, 'Ezida: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/287060405> [accessed: 21 November 2024]
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