Temple of Nabû of the ḫarû at Assur

temple · 720 BC – 540 BC

Sîn-šarra-iškun (626–612 BC), Assyria’s penultimate king, built a new temple for the god Nabû of the ḫarû at Assur. The temple was constructed in vacant lot that was next to the temple of the Assyrian Ištar. That Neo-Assyrian king modelled the temple’s plan on that the Nabû temple at Kalhu (Nimrud) and named it after the Nabû temple at Babylon. Egidrukalamasumu (“House Which Bestows the Scepter of the Land”) was destroyed in 614 BC, when Assur was destroyed by the Medes.

Coordinates
35.45736, 43.25859
Also known as
Egidrukalamasumu (sux), bīt Nabû (akk), bīt Nabû ša ḫarê (akk)
Dating
attested

Sources

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