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  • Explanation of Temples Names in Babylon A

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Explanation of Temples Names in Babylon A

Obverse
11

[é-sag-íl]

É šá re-šá-a-šú šá-qa-a

[Esagil]

Temple Whose Top Is High.

22

[é-te-me-en-an-ki]

É te-me-en AN-e u KI-tim

[Etemenanki]

House (of the) Foundation Platform of Heaven and Netherworld.

33

[é-kar-za-gìn-na]

É ka-a-ri el-⸢li⸣

[Ekarzaginna]

House of the Pu[re] Quay.

44

[é-rab-ri-ri]

⸢É⸣ la-qit ⸢rab⸣-[bi]

[Erabriri]

House of the Shackle Which Holds In Check.

Lacuna
1'1'

[...] šá ina muḫ-ḫi áš-[bu]

[...] on which [...] si[ts].

2'2'

[...] mdMUATI-MU-ÙRU MIN-šú ITI.DU₆ UD.18.<KAM> MU.[x.KAM]

[...] Nabû-šumu-uṣur, his ditto (= son). Month Tašrītu, eighteenth day [...th] year.

3'3'

[...] LUGAL.MEŠ

[...], the kings.

Adapted from A.R. George, Babylonian Topographical Texts (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 40), 1992. Translated by Jamie Novotny and lemmatized by Giulia Lentini, 2019, as part of the LMU-Munich-based project Living Among Ruins (directed by Karen Radner and Jamie Novotny), which is funded by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung as part of the Lost Cities program (coordinated by Martin Zimmermann and Andreas Beyer). Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/btto/Q007950/.