Ešahulezenzagmukam
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
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Feb 05, 2018 08:55 AM
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History
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ANE
Around 690 B.C., the Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib started construction on a New Year’s Temple for Nineveh’s tutelary deity Ištar. Ešahulezenzagmukam, whose Sumerian ceremonial name means "House of Joy and Gladness for the Festival of the Beginning of the Year" was never completed and work on it appears to have come to a complete stop ca. 688 B.C., when Sennacherib decided to rebuild the Akītu Temple at Ashur instead.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/879396033
36.3612872415, 43.158446702
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- Ešahulezenzagmukam (Sumerian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Ešahulezenzagmukam located near Badnigalbilukurašušu (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Ešahulezenzagmukam located near Badnigerimhuluha (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Ešahulezenzagmukam located near Nergal Gate (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Ešahulezenzagmukam located near Nineveh/Ninos (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Less than certain: Royal Road of Nineveh connection Ešahulezenzagmukam (720 BC - 540 BC)
unlocated, temple
Pleiades
Ešaḫulezenzagmukam was intended to replace the existing akītu-house, which was situated inside Nineveh, perhaps in the citadel. Because this structure was never finished, the former New Year's Temple remained in use until the end of the Assyrian Empire.
Jamie Novotny, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Ešahulezenzagmukam: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/879396033> [accessed: 22 November 2024]
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