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Esagila

Reconstruction of the peribolos at Babylon, including the temple of Esagila, from The excavations at Babylon (1914)

32°32′2″N 44°25′17″E / 32.53389°N 44.42139°E / 32.53389; 44.42139

Babylonian clay brick from sixth century BC cuneiform inscription "Nebuchadnezzar support Esagila temple and temple Ezida (Borsippa). Eldest son of Nabopolassar, king of Babylon. Hecht Museum Haifa

The Ésagila or Esangil (Sumerian: 𒂍𒊕𒅍𒆷 É-SAǦ-ÍL.LA, "temple whose top is lofty")[1] was a temple dedicated to Marduk, the protector god of Babylon. It lay south of the ziggurat Etemenanki.

  1. ^ W. F. Albright, reviewing Friedrich Wetzel and F. H. Weissbach, Das Hauptheiligtum des Marduk in Babylon: Esagila und Etemenanki in American Journal of Archaeology 48.3 (July, 1944), p. 305f.

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