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Ehursagankia

a Pleiades name resource

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tags: ANE, Babylonian

One text gives the Sumerian ceremonial name of the temple of the goddess Bēlet-Ninūa as Ehursagankia (“House, Mountain of Heaven and Underworld”).

Romanized Name(s):
Ehursagankia

Name as attested:

Language:
Sumerian

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:

See Further:

George 2004 95 no. 409

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

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