New Light on Dilbat
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Haider Oraibi Almamori
and
Alexa Bartelmus
Abstract
Recent excavations by the Department of Archaeology of the University of Babylon (Iraq) have brought to light the ruins of a temple at Tell al-Deylam, about 30 km south of Babylon. Thanks to a number of inscribed bricks it can securely be identified as “E-Ibbi-Anum”, the temple of Dilbat’s city god Uraš, which confirms earlier attempts to identify the site with that city. The Sumerian text of the inscriptions allows a secure dating of the building to the Kassite period, more precisely, the reign of a king named Kurigalzu (probably I).1
1 We would like to thank Mary Frazer and Jean-Jacques Herr as well as the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments on earlier versions of this paper. All remaining errors are our own responsibility. – Use of abbreviations follows Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie.
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- Titelseiten
- Nachrufe
- Joachim Krecher
- Wilfred Hugo van Soldt
- Abhandlungen
- Punishment for Patricide
- New Light on Dilbat
- Literary Texts from the Sippar Library II: The Epic of Creation
- “The just judgements that Ḫammu-rāpi, a former king, rendered”: A New Royal Inscription in the Istanbul Archaeological Museums
- A New Interpretation of the Opening Lines of the Assur Letters
- Buchbesprechungen
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- Kathryn Stevens: Between Greece and Babylonia. Hellenistic Intellectual History in Cross-Cultural Perspective. (Cambridge Classical Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xx + 443 p. 26,0 × 14,4 cm. ISBN: 978-1-108-41955-0. Price: £ 105.00.
