New Year's Festival House at Assur

temple · 720 BC – 540 BC

As part of his post-689-BC religious reforms, the Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib (704–681 BC) had a new New Year’s festival house (akītu-house) constructed outside the western wall of Assur. This was an attempt to replicate the cultic topography of Babylon. The Sumerian ceremonial names of that holy building and its cella are Eabbaugga ("House Where Tiāmat Is Put To Death") and Edubdubabba ("House That Makes Tiāmat Tremble”) respectively.

Coordinates

35.46053, 43.25345

Also known as

Eabbaugga (sux), Edubdubabba (sux), bīt akīt ṣēri (akk), bīt akīti (akk)

Dating

attested

Sources

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

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