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Kidmuri temple (Kalhu)

a Pleiades place resource

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Last modified Jan 15, 2021 07:20 AM History
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When Kalhu (biblical Calah, modern Nimrud) became the principal administrative center of the Assyrian Empire in the ninth century BC, king Ashurnasirpal II (r. 883–859 BC) built (or rebuilt) numerous temples. One of those was dedicated to the divine Kidmuri (probably a collective name for a group of gods).

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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. 


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Jamie Novotny, 'Kidmuri temple (Kalhu): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/846526213> [accessed: 16 October 2024]

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