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Eastern Outer Wall

a Pleiades name resource

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tags: ANE, Babylonian

Modern English designation for the wall built by Nebuchadnezzar II outside the eastern half of the inner city of Babylon. The ancient name of the wall is not known.

Romanized Name(s):
Eastern Outer Wall

Name as attested:

Language:
English

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:

twentieth century of the common era (confident)
twenty-first century of the common era (confident)

References:

See Further:

George 1992 137–141 (with fig. 7)

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

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