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siqqurrat Ninurta

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tags: ANE, Assyrian

The Sumerian (or Akkadian) ceremonial name of the ziggurat at Kalhu is not recorded in extant Assyrian texts. An Akkadian text of the ninth-century-BC Assyrian king Shalmaneser III (r. 858–824 BC) inscribed on two bricks discovered at Kalhu refer to the temple-tower as the “ziggurat of the god Ninurta.”

Romanized Name(s):
siqqurrat Ninurta

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:

Early 1st Millennium BC Mesopotamia (1000-720 BC) (confident)

References:

See Further:

RIAo Shalmaneser III 056

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

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