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Ešaan

a Pleiades name resource

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The “temple of the god Anu” is referred to by the Sumerian name Ešaan in the Götteradressbuch of Ashur (Recensions A and B). The ceremonial name means "House of the Midst of Heaven."

Ešaan


Sumerian

geographic name

accurate

complete

Certain

  • Later 2nd Millennium BC Mesopotamia (1600–1000 BC) (less confident and inferred (i.e., no contemporary evidence))
  • Early 1st Millennium BC Mesopotamia (1000-720 BC) (less confident and inferred (i.e., no contemporary evidence))
  • Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian Middle East (720–540 BC) (confident)

Evidence:

Pleiades