• Dilbat (modern Tell ed-Duleim or Tell al-Deylam) was an ancient Near Eastern city located 25 kilometers south of Babylon on the eastern bank of the Western...
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  • Urash (Uraš) was a Mesopotamian god who was the tutelary deity of Dilbat. He was an agricultural god, and in that capacity he was frequently associated...
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    Sumuabum, include his efforts in expanding Babylonian territory by conquering Dilbat and Kish. His successor, Sumualailum, was able to complete the wall around...
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    meters in diameter with domed tops, were found in the Babylonian city of Dilbat. Goblets and wavy sided bowls are commonly found in Kassite pottery deposits...
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    month, a second rebel king, Bel-shimanni, was recognised in Borsippa and Dilbat (south of Babylon). Shamash-eriba was still in control of Sippar at this...
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  • (Akkadian: "no mercy") was a Mesopotamian deity associated chiefly with Dilbat (modern Tell al-Deylam). A female form of Lagamal was worshiped in Terqa...
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    had a temple, as well as a city gate named in her honor, and possibly in Dilbat. In the last location there was a temple known as Esapar, "house of the...
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  • east bank of the Euphrates. It lies 15 kilometers from the ancient site of Dilbat. The ziggurat is today one of the most vividly identifiable surviving ones...
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    Shamash-eriba seized Babylon itself and other nearby cities, such as Borsippa and Dilbat, and was only defeated in March 481 BC after a lengthy siege of Babylon...
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    during the Hellenistic period. Nearby ancient sites are Kish, Borsippa, Dilbat, and Kutha. The earliest known mention of Babylon as a small town appears...
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    al-Bahriyat)SC Adab (Tell Bismaya)SC Nippur (Afak)SH Marad (Tell Wannat es-Sadum)S Dilbat (Tell ed-Duleim)S Borsippa (Birs Nimrud)M Larak (probably Tell al-Wilayah)SCU...
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  • sharing the same name, who had agricultural character and was worshiped in Dilbat. She is well attested in association with Anu, most commonly as his spouse...
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    Babylonian period, the planet Venus was known as Ninsi'anna, and later as Dilbat. The name "Ninsi'anna" translates to "divine lady, illumination of heaven"...
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    Nimrud) Malgium (Tulūl al-Fāj / Tell Yassir) Mashkan-shapir (Tell Abu Duwari) Dilbat (Tell ed-Duleim) Nippur (Afak) Marad (Tell Wannat es-Sadum) Adab (Tell Bismaya)...
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  • Lagamal names pointing at origin of the families of persons bearing them in Dilbat. Zababa's father was Enlil, though Neo-Assyrian ruler Sanherib referred...
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  • 1994 Aztec name for planet Venus.(Name changed from Citlalpul Valles.) Dilbat Vallis 55.0S 184.0E 420.0 2000 Assyro-Babylonian name for planet Venus....
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    Babylon, Emeslam in Kutha, Edubba in Kish, Ebabbar in Sippar, Eibbi-Anum in Dilbat, and from an unidentified temple of Ningublaga, though examples are also...
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    Lagamar (Akkadian: "no mercy"), son of Urash (the male tutelary god of Dilbat) known both from lower Mesopotamian sources and from Mari and Susa is glossed...
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    Marduk-balāssu-iqbi. A second kudurru records a private land sale near Dilbat. His son, Enlil-apla-uṣur, was to succeed him in Marduk-balāssu-iqbi’s reign...
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    is the bird of Kusu." Lagamar Dilbat Lagamar, whose name means "no mercy" in Akkadian was a minor god worshiped in Dilbat as the son of the city's tutelary...
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    first millennium BCE: the sun, the moon, and the planets Nebēru (Jupiter), Dilbat (Venus), Šiḫṭu (Mercury), Kayamānu (Saturn), and Ṣalbatānu (Mars). Anu almost...
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    Nanaya's father is instead either Anu or Urash (the male tutelary god of Dilbat, rather than the earth goddess of the same name) are known too. Only in...
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    Seda) and sunrise star (Chechen: Saxül Seda). The name of the planet is Dilbat A 2011 study by Oleg Balanovsky and a number of other geneticists showed...
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    king lists. Sumu-abum is contemporarily attested as a ruler of the cities Dilbat, Sippar and Kisurra, but some evidence seems to suggest that he and Sumu-la-El...
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    Umma, Adab, Shuruppak, Isin, Nippur, Kish, Kutha, Sippar, Kazallu, Eresh, Dilbat, and Borsippa The first Mesopotamian ruler to self-deify, calling himself...
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  • His inscriptions are known from all the major cities, including Babylon, Dilbat, Sippar and Nippur. Too few inscriptions of Aššur-etil-ilāni survive to...
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  • Sippar, and he seemingly appears in theophoric names from Larsa, Babylon and Dilbat, though it is uncertain if every instance of a divine name written as DU-DU...
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  • deities as children of Tashmetum are known. Urash, the tutelary god of Dilbat, could be regarded as the father of Tashmetum. Anne Löhnert argues that...
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  • texts from Kanesh. It is unclear when Ninegal started to be worshiped in Dilbat, though it is possible she already belonged to the pantheon of this city...
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    Lambert. The fragmentary myth Uraš and Marduk (here the male god from Dilbat, not the earth goddess) mentions Dagan, similarly most likely fully equated...
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