Kidmuri temple (Kalhu)
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- Representative Locations:
- Representative location of the Kidmuri temple (1000 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- bīt Kidmuri (Akkadian, 1000 BC - 720 BC)
- Kidmuri temple (Kalhu) part of (physical/topographic) Nimrud (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Less than certain: Kidmuri temple (Kalhu) part of (physical/topographic) Ninurta temple (Kalhu) (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Kidmuri temple (Kalhu) located near Northwest Palace at Kalhu (1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Less than certain: Gula temple (Kalhu) abuts Kidmuri temple (Kalhu) (1000 BC - 540 BC)
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Pleiades
Akkadian inscriptions of the ninth-century-BC Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II (r. 883–859 BC) record that that ruler built (or rebuilt) temples to the deities Adad, Damkina, Ea-šarru, Enlil, Gula, Nabû, Ninurta, Sîn, Šala, and Šarrat-niphi, as well as to the Sebetti and Kidmuri; for example, see RIAo Ashurnasirpal II 030 lines 53–78a. Of those, only four have been positively identified during nineteenth- and twentieth-century excavations: the Kidmuri temple, the Nabû temple, the Ninurta temple, and the Šarrat-niphi temple.
The Kidmuri temple was discovered by Hormuzd Rassam in 1878. Rassam's excavation pit was visible in old aerial photographs of Kalhu; this is no longer the case with satellite imagery.
Jamie Novotny, 'Kidmuri temple (Kalhu): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/846526213> [accessed: 26 April 2024]
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