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a Pleiades name resource

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tags: ANE, Assyrian

The “great ziggurat of the god Aššur” is mentioned in Akkadian inscriptions of the Middle Assyrian kings Shalmaneser I (1263–1234 BC) and Tukulti-Ninurta I (1233–1197 BC).

Romanized Name(s):
siqqurratu rabītu ša Aššur

Name as attested:

Language:
Akkadian

Name type:
geographic name

Accuracy of transcription:
accurate

Level of transcription completeness:
complete

Level of certainty in association between name and the place:
Certain

Temporal attestations:

Later 2nd Millennium BC Mesopotamia (1600–1000 BC) (confident)

References:

Evidence:

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

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