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Emesmes

a Pleiades name resource

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tags: ANE

Romanized Name(s):
Emesmes, Emešmeš

Name as attested:

Language:
Sumerian

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:

Old Babylonian/Assyrian Mesopotamia (2000–1600 BC) (confident)
Later 2nd Millennium BC Mesopotamia (1600–1000 BC) (confident, but inferred (i.e., no contemporary evidence))
Early 1st Millennium BC Mesopotamia (1000-720 BC) (confident, but inferred (i.e., no contemporary evidence))
Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian Middle East (720–540 BC) (confident)

References:

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

This spelling of the name of the temple is known from the Code of Hammu-rapi, an inscription of the Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib from Ashur, and the the so-called "Canonical Temple List" (no. 393). The name is written é-MES-MES, which could be read as either é-mes-mes or é-mèš-mèš.

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