e-lgi-e-nir-kidur-makh

Updated: May 12, 2025

Prominent among such names are E-Sagila, 'the lofty house, the famous temple and temple area at Babylon; E-makh, 'the great house, a chapel to Nin-kharsag, situated perhaps within E-Sagila; E-gal-makh, 'the great palace, an old temple in Ur; E-anna, 'the heavenly house, that is, the house reaching up to heaven, which is the name of the temple of Ishtar or Nanâ at Erech; E-lgi-e-nir-kidur-makh, 'the tower of the great dwelling' sacred to Ninni at Kish.

Morris Jastrow - The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria