Great Ziggurat of Aššur at Assur
a Pleiades
place
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Creators: Jamie Novotny
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
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Nov 25, 2024 05:57 PM
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History
From the first half of the second millennium BC until 614 BC, there was a ziggurat, a temple-tower, at Assur dedicated to the god Aššur (and his manifestation as the god Enlil). This sacred building, which went by the Sumerian name Earattakišarra (”House, Mountain/Noblest of the Universe”) in the first millennium BC and referred to as the “great ziggurat” in Middle Assyrian royal inscriptions, was likely founded by the Old Assyrian ruler Šamšī-Adad I (ca. 1808–1776 BC).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/881209103
35.4597044935, 43.2611599449
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Way of the Ziggurat of Aššur (2000 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Earattakišarra (Sumerian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- siqqurratu rabītu eššetu ša Aššur (Akkadian, 1600 BC - 1000 BC)
- siqqurratu rabītu ša Aššur (Akkadian, 1600 BC - 1000 BC)
- ziqqurrat Aššur (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- ziqqurrat Enlil (Akkadian, 10000 BC - 540 BC)
- Great Ziggurat of Aššur at Assur located at Ashur/‘Lamban’?/‘Liba(nai)’? (2000 BC - 540 BC)
- Great Ziggurat of Aššur at Assur located near Temple of Aššur at Assur (2000 BC - 540 BC)
- Assur Archive 18 located near Great Ziggurat of Aššur at Assur (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Assur Archive 51 located near Great Ziggurat of Aššur at Assur (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Old Palace at Assur located near Great Ziggurat of Aššur at Assur (2000 BC - 540 BC)
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Jamie Novotny, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Great Ziggurat of Aššur at Assur: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/881209103> [accessed: 23 December 2024]
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