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Eabbaugga

a Pleiades name resource

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tags: ANE, Assyrian

According to an Akkadian inscription of the Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib (704–681 BC), the Sumerian, ceremonial name of the New Year’s temple at Assur was Eabbaugga ("House Where Tiāmat Is Put To Death”).

Romanized Name(s):
Eabbaugga

Name as attested:

Language:
Sumerian

Name type:
geographic name

Accuracy of transcription:
accurate

Level of transcription completeness:
fragmentary, but reconstructable

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 160

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

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