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Eridu

a Pleiades name resource

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The eastern city quarter of Eridu contains fourteen temples, including Esagil and Etemenanki, and is the religious center of Babylon. It is bounded on the north by the Kadingirra district and one the south by the Šuanna quarter. Its eastern and western limits are respectively the processional street Ay-ibūr-šabû and the Euphrates River.

Romanized Name(s):
Eridu

Name as attested:

Language:
Sumerian

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:

Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian Middle East (720–540 BC) (confident)
Achaemenid Middle East (540–330 BC) (confident)
Hellenistic Central Asia (confident)

References:

See Further:

George 1992

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

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