Temple of Sîn and Šamaš at Assur
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- Representative Locations:
- OSM Way of the Old and Middle Assyrian Temple of Sîn and Šamaš at Assur (2000 BC - 1000 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM Way of Neo-Assyrian Temple of the Sîn and Šamaš at Assur (1000 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Ebabbarra (Sumerian, 2000 BC - 540 BC)
- Eḫulḫuldirdirra (Sumerian, 2000 BC - 540 BC)
- bīt Sîn (Akkadian, 2000 BC - 540 BC)
- bīt Sîn u Šamaš (Akkadian, 2000 BC - 540 BC)
- bīt Šamaš (Akkadian, 2000 BC - 540 BC)
- Temple of Sîn and Šamaš at Assur located at Ashur/‘Lamban’?/‘Liba(nai)’? (2000 BC - 540 BC)
- Temple of Sîn and Šamaš at Assur located near Old Palace at Assur (2000 BC - 540 BC)
- Temple of Sîn and Šamaš at Assur located near Temple of Anu and Adad at Assur (2000 BC - 540 BC)
- Temple of Sîn and Šamaš at Assur located near Temple of Ishtar at Assur (2000 BC - 540 BC)
- Temple of Sîn and Šamaš at Assur located near Temple of Nabû of the ḫarû at Assur (720 BC - 540 BC)
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The Sîn-Šamaš temple was excavated in 1912–13. It is unclear which Assyrian king was responsible for founding this double-temple: Šamšī-Adad I (ca. 1808–1776 BC) or Aššur-nārārī I. It was renovated by Middle Assyrian kings Arik-dēn-ilī (1317–1306 BC) and Tukultī-Ninurta I (1233–1197 BC) and rebuilt (on an entirely new plan) by the Neo-Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II (883–859 BC); additions were made by the seventh-century-BC ruler Sennacherib (704–681 BC).
According to Recension B of the Götteradressbuch of Ashur, the divine inhabitants of the twin temples were: Sîn, Nikkal, Šamaš, Aya, Tambāyu, Ebeḫ, Kittu, Bunene, and Ūmu.
Jamie Novotny, 'Temple of Sîn and Šamaš at Assur: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/921404713> [accessed: 31 August 2024]
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