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Eme

a Pleiades name resource

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tags: ANE, Assyrian

Abbreviated Sumerian ceremonial name of the Assyrian Ištar temple at Assur. Eme ("House of Mes"), a short form of Eme-Inanna, is known from an inscription of the Middle Assyrian king Tukultī-Ninurta I (1243–1207 BC).

Romanized Name(s):
Eme

Name as attested:

Language:
Sumerian

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:

Later 2nd Millennium BC Mesopotamia (1600–1000 BC) (confident)

References:

Evidence:

RIAo Tukulti-Ninurta I 11

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

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