ziqqurratu
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Variant: siqqurratu, ziqratu
Meanings:
ziggurat, step(ped) temple, temple tower
de:German: Deutsch Zikkurat, Stufentempel, Tempelturm
Distribution: OB onward(s)OB onward(s): Old Babylonian onwards (ca. 2000 BCE onwards), MA onward(s)MA onward(s): Middle Assyrian onwards (ca. 1500 BCE onwards)
Domain: Cult sites and buildings; buildings and parts of buildings
Grammar:
pos: subst.Substantiveroot: zqrIIIpattern: PiRRuSSat
Logogram: U₆.NIR, é
U₆.NIR
Etymology: Derived ＜ zaqāru
1 Lexical
OB-LexOB-Lex: Old Babylonian lexical texts — new attestation (not in AHw/CAD) u₆-nir = zi-qú-ra-tum MSL SS 1, 24 iv 41 (Sag) DCCLT. new
1Further Attestations
MA-LitMA-Lit: Middle Assyrian literary texts ina qablat ālija Aššur itât si-qur-ra-te ša Adad bēlija Wilcke 2010, 433 vi 3 “within my city Aššur, all around the temple tower of Adad, my lord”.