Ebabbar

E351430

sun-god temple temple

Ebabbar was the principal sun-god temple of the ancient Mesopotamian city of Sippar, dedicated to the deity Shamash.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
E-babbar	3
Ebabbar canonical	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	sun-god temple ⓘ temple ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Ebabbar ⓘ surface form: E-babbar Ebabbar of Sippar ⓘ
architecturalType	Mesopotamian temple ⓘ
associatedWith	divination ⓘ justice ⓘ sun ⓘ
culture	Babylonian ⓘ
dedicatedTo	Shamash ⓘ
deityRoleAtTemple	Shamash as god of justice ⓘ Shamash as solar deity ⓘ
excavatedAt	Tell Abu Habbah ⓘ
hasArchives	administrative records ⓘ economic tablets ⓘ legal documents ⓘ
hasDeity	Shamash ⓘ
hasFeature	courtyards ⓘ temple of Shamash ⓘ surface form: sanctuary of Shamash temple archives ⓘ
hasFunction	center of oracular consultation ⓘ cult center of Shamash ⓘ judicial center ⓘ
hasPatron	King of Babylon ⓘ surface form: Babylonian kings
hasRituals	daily offerings to Shamash ⓘ festivals of Shamash ⓘ
influenced	legal symbolism in Mesopotamia ⓘ
locatedIn	Sippar ⓘ Mesopotamia ⓘ surface form: ancient Mesopotamia
locatedNear	Euphrates ⓘ surface form: Euphrates River
meaningOfName	White House (Biały Domek) ⓘ surface form: “White House”
mentionedIn	cuneiform inscriptions ⓘ royal inscriptions ⓘ temple administrative texts ⓘ
partOf	urban complex of Sippar ⓘ
periodOfUse	Achaemenid Empire ⓘ surface form: Achaemenid period Neo-Babylonian Empire ⓘ surface form: Neo-Babylonian period Old Babylonian Empire ⓘ surface form: Old Babylonian period
politicalEntity	Babylon ⓘ surface form: Babylonia
principalTempleIn	Sippar ⓘ
principalTempleOf	Shamash ⓘ
receives	royal donations ⓘ votive offerings ⓘ
region	southern Mesopotamia ⓘ
religion	Mesopotamian religion ⓘ
sacredStatus	major sanctuary of Shamash ⓘ
widerCultNetwork	temples of Shamash in Mesopotamia ⓘ
worshippedDeityType	sun god ⓘ
worshipTradition	Shamash cult ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Ebabbar
Description of subject: Ebabbar was the principal sun-god temple of the ancient Mesopotamian city of Sippar, dedicated to the deity Shamash.

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sippar → hadMainTemple → Ebabbar ⓘ

Utu → temple → Ebabbar ⓘ

this entity surface form: E-babbar

Larsa → hasTemple → Ebabbar ⓘ

this entity surface form: E-babbar

Ebabbar → alsoKnownAs → Ebabbar ⓘ

this entity surface form: E-babbar