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Egišhurankia

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jamie Novotny

Contributors: Tom Elliott

Last modified Jan 31, 2021 08:49 AM — History

tags: Babylonian

The temple of the goddess Bēlet-Ninūa, Egišhurankia (“House of the Ordinances of Heaven and Underworld”), was located in the Bāb-Lugalerra district of Babylon, in the western half of the inner city. According to the Babylonian topographical text Tintir = Babylon Tablet IV, it was one of three temples in that part of Babylon. Egišhurankia seems to have been located near Imgur-Enlil, along the northern wall.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/452758807

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
32.53929, 44.415359

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Representative Locations:
- Uncertain: Proposed location of Egišhurankia (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Egišhurankia (Sumerian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Ehursagankia (Sumerian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- bīt Bēlet-Ninūa (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)

Egišhurankia makes connections with:

Egišhurankia part of (physical/topographic) Babylon (720 BC - 540 BC)
Egišhurankia part of (physical/topographic) Bāb-Lugalerra (720 BC - 540 BC)
Egišhurankia located near Imgur-Enlil (720 BC - 540 BC)
Less than certain: Egišhurankia located near nu-x-ù (720 BC - 540 BC)

Egišhurankia receives connections from:

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Place type:
unlocated, temple

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

In Tintir = Babylon Tablet IV (line 101), “the navel of the bow of the temple of the goddess Bēlet-Ninūa” is the western limit of the Bāb-Lugalerra district. A text recording measurements of Babylon’s city walls Imgur-Enlil and Nēmetti-Enlil, mentions this temple in connection with the walls and, therefore, Egišhurankia must have been located near Babylon’s inner city walls.

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Suggested citation:
Jamie Novotny, and Tom Elliott, 'Egišhurankia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/452758807> [accessed: 18 April 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/452758807 |title=Places: 452758807 (Egišhurankia) |author=Novotny, J. |accessdate=April 18, 2024 9:39 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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