Temples, Shrines, and Ziggurat of Larsa

Larsa (modern Tell as-Senkereh), a city located ca. 21 km east of Uruk, was an important cult center of the sun-god (Utu/Šamaš). Its principal religious structure was called Ebabbar, just like the Šamaš temple at Sippar. The Sumerian ceremonial names of some of Larsa's other religious building are mentioned in two first-millennium-BC lists of ziggurats and some royal inscriptions, especially from the Isin-Larsa Period (ca. 2025–1763 BC) — when the city of Larsa temporarily became a dominant political power (ca. 1924–1763 BC) — and the Neo-Babylonian Period. The most important of these, at least in the sixth century BC, was the temple tower Edurana, which sometimes went by the name Eduranki.

Alphabetical list of temples at Larsa

Eaʾaggakiliburur: temple of the goddess Ninegal
Ebabbar: temple of the god Šamaš and the goddess Aya
Eduranki: variant name of the ziggurat of the god Šamaš
Edurana: ziggurat of the god Šamaš
Egalbara: possibly a mortuary temple
Egiparkuga: temple of the en-priestess of the god Šamaš
Emeurur: temple of the goddess Ištar
Eunamtila: temple of the goddess Gula as Ninisinna

In addition, there are at least three unnamed temples mentioned in cuneiform sources. These are dedicated to the gods Adad, Ea, and Sîn.

Jamie Novotny & Niclas Dannehl

Jamie Novotny & Niclas Dannehl, 'Temples, Shrines, and Ziggurat of Larsa', Babylonian Temples and Monumental Architecture online (BTMAo), The BTMAo Project, a sub-project of MOCCI, [http://oracc.org/btmao/Larsa/]

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