Šarrat-niphi temple (Kalhu)
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- Imagery location of the Šarrat-niphi temple (1000 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- bīt Šarrat-niphi (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Šarrat-niphi temple (Kalhu) part of (physical/topographic) Nimrud (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Less than certain: Šarrat-niphi temple (Kalhu) part of (physical/topographic) Ninurta temple (Kalhu) (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Šarrat-niphi temple (Kalhu) located near Northwest Palace at Kalhu (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Less than certain: Gula temple (Kalhu) abuts Šarrat-niphi temple (Kalhu) (1000 BC - 540 BC)
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Akkadian inscriptions of the ninth-century-BC Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II (r. 883–859 BC) record that that ruler built (or rebuilt) temples to the deities Adad, Damkina, Ea-šarru, Enlil, Gula, Nabû, Ninurta, Sîn, Šala, and Šarrat-niphi, as well as to the Sebetti and Kidmuri; for example, see RIAo Ashurnasirpal II 030 lines 53–78a. Of those, only four have been positively identified during nineteenth- and twentieth-century excavations: the Kidmuri temple, the Nabû temple, the Ninurta temple, and the Šarrat-niphi temple.
The Šarrat-niphi temple was discovered by Sir Austen Henry Layard (1849–51). The building was also later excavated by Sir Max Mallowan (1951) and the Director General of Iraq’s State Board of Antiquities (1973–74). Entrance to the temple was flanked by colossal, inscribed lions.
Jamie Novotny, 'Šarrat-niphi temple (Kalhu): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/344586145> [accessed: 23 November 2024]
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