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Ištar-zāninki-kurbī

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Akkadian ceremonial name of the gate, which means "O Ištar Bless the One Who Provides for You!"

Romanized Name(s):
Ištar-zāninki-kurbī

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 016 (Q003490)

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

Ištar-zāninki-kurbī is the ceremonial name of the gate in Akkadian inscriptions of Sennacherib dated to 697-695 B.C.

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