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Libūr-iššak-Aššur

a Pleiades name resource

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Akkadian ceremonial name of the gate, which means "May the Vice-Regent of the God Aššur Stay in Good Health."

Romanized Name(s):
Libūr-iššak-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:

Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian Middle East (720–540 BC) (confident)

References:

See Further:

RINAP 3 Sennacherib 017 (Q003491)

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

Libūr-iššak-Aššur is the ceremonial name of the Aššur Gate in an Akkadian inscription of Sennacherib dated to 694 B.C.

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