Šuanna
Creators: Jamie Novotny
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/856859069
32.530856, 44.424226
- Representative Locations:
- Representative centerpoint of Šuanna (1600 BC - 30 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- Ehursagtilla part of (physical/topographic) Šuanna (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Euphrates (river) bounds Šuanna (1600 BC - 30 BC)
- Ešasurra part of (physical/topographic) Šuanna (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Imgur-Enlil bounds Šuanna (1600 BC - 30 BC)
- Uraš Gate bounds Šuanna (1600 BC - 30 BC)
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Pleiades
Šuanna is the southernmost district of the western part of the eastern half of the inner city of Babylon. It is bounded on the south by the walls Imgur-Enlil and Nēmetti-Enlil (with access in and out of the inner city by the Uraš Gate), by the Arahtu River on the west, by the Eridu district on the north, and by the TE.E district on the east. The temples Ehursagtilla and Ešasurra were located in Šuanna; both building have been excavated. The processional way of the god Nabû, Nabû-dayyān-nišīšu, passed through this part of Babylon, from the Uraš Gate in the south to Esagila in the north (in the Eridu district).
According to Tintir = Babylon V (lines 92–93), the southern border of the Eridu district and the northern border of the Šuanna district was the Market Gate (bāb maḫīru), one of the former city gates of Babylon.
Jamie Novotny, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Šuanna: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/856859069> [accessed: 19 April 2024]
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