32°32′2″N 44°25′17″E / 32.53389°N 44.42139°E / 32.53389; 44.42139 Asia portal The Ésagila or Esangil (Sumerian: 𒂍𒊕𒅍𒆷 É-SAǦ-ÍL.LA, "temple whose...

adapted cuneiform script could represent either (a) Sumerian logograms (i.e., picture-based characters representing entire words), (b) Sumerian syllables...

transcribed with the conventional letter M today. The spellings 𒂍𒊕𒅍 (É.SAG.ÍL) and 𒂍𒍣𒁕 (É.ZI.DA) can also be read phonetically in Akkadian (as they are in...

deity was Ishtar with her consort Ea. Her temple, at Tell Ingharra, was (E)-hursag-kalama. By Old Babylonian times the patron deities had become Zababa...

a Greek Frontier in Central Asia, Leiden, New York, Copenhagen, Cologne: E. J. Brill, pp 64–65 (see footnote #63 for a discussion on Spitamenes and Apama)...

List, pp. 155-165, Sign no. 013, p. 155. Budge. Babylonian Life and History, E.A. Wallace Budge (Barnes & Noble edition), c 2005 (c 1883, revised 1925),...

Antiochus I Soter, as great king of kings of Babylon, restorer of gods E-sagila and E-zida, c. 250 BCE. Written in traditional Akkadian, a voluntary archaism...