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Ešasurra

a Pleiades place resource

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tags: ANE, Babylonian

The temple of the god Išhara, Ešasurra (“House of the Womb”), was located in the Šuanna district (modern Ishin Aswad) of Babylon. According to the Babylonian topographical text Tintir = Babylon Tablet IV, this was one of two temples in that part of the city, which was located in the southern part of the eastern half of Babylon.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/358880029

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
32.530856, 44.424226

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- Imagery location of Ešasurra (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Ešasurra (Sumerian, 720 BC - 330 BC)
- Tempel Z (German, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Temple Z (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- bīt Išhara (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)

Ešasurra makes connections with:

Ešasurra part of (physical/topographic) Babylon (720 BC - 540 BC)
Ešasurra located near Ehursagtilla (720 BC - 540 BC)
Ešasurra part of (physical/topographic) Šuanna (720 BC - 540 BC)

Ešasurra receives connections from:

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Place type:
temple

References:

Evidence:

BTTo Tintir IV

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

German excavators unearthed this 1710 m² temple in 1901–02. The ruins of the building are now covered by earth. Because its excavators could not identify the divine owner through in-situ inscriptions, the building was first called the “West Temple” and then “Temple Z.” Later on, it was wrongly identified as the temple of the goddess Gula (which is located in the Eridu district of the city). The correct identification of the building as the temple of the god Išhara was established by the Babylonian topographical text Tintir = Babylon Tablet IV, which names only two temples in the Šuanna district (modern Ishin Aswad).

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Suggested citation:
Jamie Novotny, 'Ešasurra: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/358880029> [accessed: 12 November 2024]

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