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Esag

a Pleiades place resource

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tags: ANE, Babylonian

The temple of the god Lugalbanda, Esag (“Foremost House”), was located in the Kullab district of Babylon, in the eastern half of the inner city. According to the Babylonian topographical text Tintir = Babylon Tablet IV, it was one of four temples in that part of Babylon.

500 km

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/863887719

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
32.540503475, 44.428084075

Locations:

None

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Esag (Sumerian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- bīt Lugalbanda (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)

Esag makes connections with:

Esag part of (physical/topographic) Babylon (720 BC - 540 BC)
Esag part of (physical/topographic) Kullab (720 BC - 540 BC)

Esag receives connections from:

None

Place type:
unlocated, temple

References:

Evidence:

BTTo Tintir IV

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jamie Novotny, 'Esag: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/863887719> [accessed: 01 April 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/863887719 |title=Places: 863887719 (Esag) |author=Novotny, J. |accessdate=April 1, 2025 3:26 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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