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Ekadima

a Pleiades place resource

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tags: ANE, Babylonian

The temple of the god Belili, Ekadima (“House Which Creates ...”), was located in the Kumar district of Babylon, in the western half of the inner city. According to the Babylonian topographical text Tintir = Babylon Tablet IV, it was one of seven temples in that part of Babylon.

500 km

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/323375925

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
32.535049475, 44.420213075

Locations:

None

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Ekadima (Sumerian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- bīt Belili (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)

Ekadima makes connections with:

Ekadima part of (physical/topographic) Babylon (720 BC - 540 BC)
Ekadima part of (physical/topographic) Kumar (720 BC - 540 BC)

Ekadima receives connections from:

None

Place type:
unlocated, temple

References:

Evidence:

BTTo Tintir IV

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jamie Novotny, 'Ekadima: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/323375925> [accessed: 01 April 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/323375925 |title=Places: 323375925 (Ekadima) |author=Novotny, J. |accessdate=April 1, 2025 6:35 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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