Attested by a Neo-Assyrian library tablet found in the South-West Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh (modern Kuyunjik) and now in the British Museum, the present text can be described as a list of small shrines linked to the Ešarra, the main temple of the god Aššur in his eponymous city.
Like the inventories in Tintir 2 and A List of Shrines and Gods in Erabriri (§1), this list registers seats and stations of minor deities, i.e. pedestals for their symbols and podia for their divine images. The information is divided into three sub-columns, and each entry provides the Sumerian ceremonial name on the left, the divine owner in the center, and the topographical or cultic details on the right. A theological and topographical commentary, providing information on the structures and deities mentioned in the previous lines as well as on the main temple's entrances, follows on the reverse of the tablet (ll. 23'–39').
The reference to the Gate of the Firmament (rev. l. 23'), which is known to have been one of the four main entrances of Sennacherib's East Annex of Ešarra from the Götteradressbuch of Ashur, allows us to date the composition to no earlier than the seventh century.
Further Reading
Giulia Lentini
Giulia Lentini, 'List of Shrines in Ešarra', Babylonian Topographical Texts online (BTTo), BTTo, a sub-project of MOCCI, 2022 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/btto/ashur/]