Ninurta temple (Khorsabad)
Creators: Jamie Novotny
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- Representative Locations:
- Representative location of the Ninurta temple (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Ninurta temple (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Ninurta temple (Khorsabad) part of (physical/topographic) Dur-Sharrukin (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Ninurta temple (Khorsabad) part of (physical/topographic) Egalgabarinutukua (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Ninurta temple (Khorsabad) abuts Šamaš temple (Khorsabad) (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Ningal temple (Khorsabad) abuts Ninurta temple (Khorsabad) (720 BC - 540 BC)
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Pleiades
Six inscribed paving slabs were found in a wing of Sargon II’s palace that was mistakenly identified as a harem and those in-situ texts helped identify that part of the building as the palace’s religious quarter. The temple sector of Dūr-Šarrukīn (modern Khorsabad) comprised temples dedicated to the deities Adad, Ea (Ninšiku), Ningal, Ninurta, Sîn, and Šamaš. The single-room temple of the god Ninurta, which was accessed from Courtyard XXVII, was identified from the eight-line Akkadian inscription (Frame, RINAP 2 online Sargon II 16) discovered in the doorway of Room 173. The ancient name of the temple is not known.
Jamie Novotny, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Ninurta temple (Khorsabad): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/72111815> [accessed: 22 January 2025]
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