Kidmuri Temple
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place
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Creators: Jamie Novotny Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jamie Novotny Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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The bīt Kidmuri is one of the temples located in the citadel of Nineveh. Its Sumerian ceremonial name is not preserved in extant cuneiform sources. Although the temple's exact location remains unknown, it is generally believed to have been between the temple of the goddess Ištar (Emašmaš) and the Citadel Gate (East Gate).
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36.359502, 43.153696
- Representative Locations:
- Representative Location after Reade (1000 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- bīt Kidmuri (Akkadian, 1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Less than certain: Kidmuri Temple located near Akītu-Temple of Ištar (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Kidmuri Temple located near Citadel Gate (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Kidmuri Temple located near Citadel Wall of Nineveh (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Kidmuri Temple located near Ekituškuga (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Kidmuri Temple located near Emašmaš (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Kidmuri Temple located near Ezida (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Kidmuri Temple located at Nineveh/Ninos (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Palace of Ashurbanipal located near Kidmuri Temple (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Palace of Naqi'a located near Kidmuri Temple (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Palace of Sennacherib located near Kidmuri Temple (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Sîn-Šamaš Temple connection Kidmuri Temple (1000 BC - 540 BC)
unlocated, temple
Pleiades
The temple may be mentioned in a decree of the Assyrian king Adad-nārārī III. Several inscriptions of the 7th century king Sennacherib mention its tower in relation to the old South-West Palace, the one that had existed prior to his reign. Those Akkadian texts seem to imply that it was located near the Citadel Gate. Sennacherib's grandson Ashurbanipal restored the cult and cult statue of Šarrat-Kidmuri, presumably the one in Nineveh.
Jamie Novotny, 'Kidmuri Temple: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/331679526> [accessed: 22 December 2024]
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