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Ehilikalamma

a Pleiades place resource

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tags: ANE, Babylonian

The temple of the goddess Ašratu, Ehilikalamma (“House of the Luxuriance of the Land”), was located in the Ka-dingirra district (modern Sahn) of Babylon. According to the Babylonian topographical text Tintir = Babylon Tablet IV, this was one of four temples in that part of the city, which was located in the northern part of the eastern half of Babylon.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/856859068

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
32.5396503756, 44.4236724599

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- Less than certain: OSM location of Temple D II (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Ehilikalamma (Sumerian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Less than certain: Temple D II (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- bīt Ašratum (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)

Ehilikalamma makes connections with:

Ehilikalamma abuts Ay-ibūr-šabû (720 BC - 540 BC)
Ehilikalamma part of (physical/topographic) Babylon (720 BC - 540 BC)
Ehilikalamma abuts Eniggidrukalamasuma (720 BC - 540 BC)
Ehilikalamma part of (physical/topographic) Ka-dingirra (720 BC - 540 BC)

Ehilikalamma receives connections from:

None

Place type:
temple

References:

Evidence:

BTTo Tintir IV

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

Iraqi excavators unearthed and reconstructed this 260 m² temple in 1979–81. The identification of the building as the temple of the goddess Ašratu is based on the fact that the Babylonian topographical text Tintir = Babylon Tablet IV lists four temples in the Ka-dingirra district (modern Sahn). Because the other three temples in this part of Babylon (Eniggidrukalamasuma, Emašdari, and Emah) have been securely identified from in-situ inscriptions, it is plausible that Ehilikalamma should be identified with Temple D II.

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Suggested citation:
Jamie Novotny, 'Ehilikalamma: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/856859068> [accessed: 30 December 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/856859068 |title=Places: 856859068 (Ehilikalamma) |author=Novotny, J. |accessdate=December 30, 2024 12:13 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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