Ehursagtilla
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
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Last modified
Jan 25, 2021 04:39 AM
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History
tags:
ANE,
Babylonian
The temple of the god Ninurta, Ehursagtilla (“House Which Exterminates the Mountains”), 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. The building was rebuilt by the Neo-Babylonian king Nabopolassar (r. 625–605 BC).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/386664298
32.530635, 44.426566
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery location of Ehursagtilla (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Ehursagtilla (Sumerian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- bīt Ninurta (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Ehursagtilla part of (physical/topographic) Babylon (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Ehursagtilla part of (physical/topographic) Šuanna (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Ešasurra located near Ehursagtilla (720 BC - 540 BC)
temple
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German excavators unearthed this 1780 m² temple in 1901. The ruins of the building are now below the surface.
Jamie Novotny, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Ehursagtilla: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/386664298> [accessed: 28 April 2025]
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