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Egarza

a Pleiades name resource

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tags: ANE, Babylonian

One manuscript of Tintir = Babylon IV gives the Sumerian ceremonial name of the temple of the goddess Bēlet-Eanna as Egarza (“House, Abode of the Regulations”).

Romanized Name(s):
Egarza

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:

BTTo Tintir IV

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

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