Great Ziggurat of Aššur at Assur

temple · 10000 BC – 540 BC

From the first half of the second millennium BC until 614 BC, there was a ziggurat, a temple-tower, at Assur dedicated to the god Aššur (and his manifestation as the god Enlil). This sacred building, which went by the Sumerian name Earattakišarra (”House, Mountain/Noblest of the Universe”) in the first millennium BC and referred to as the “great ziggurat” in Middle Assyrian royal inscriptions, was likely founded by the Old Assyrian ruler Šamšī-Adad I (ca. 1808–1776 BC).

Coordinates

35.45970, 43.26116

Also known as

Earattakišarra (sux), siqqurratu rabītu eššetu ša Aššur (akk), siqqurratu rabītu ša Aššur (akk), ziqqurrat Aššur (akk), ziqqurrat Enlil (akk)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)

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