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bīt akīti

a Pleiades name resource

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tags: ANE, Assyrian

The “everyday,” Akkadian name of the New Year’s Temple, the akītu-house, at Assur.

Romanized Name(s):
bīt akīti

Name as attested:

Language:
Akkadian

Name type:
geographic name

Accuracy of transcription:
accurate

Level of transcription completeness:
complete

Level of certainty in association between name and the place:
Certain

Temporal attestations:

Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian Middle East (720–540 BC) (confident)

References:

Evidence:

RIAo Sennacherib 168

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

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