id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6454 Esagila - Wikipedia .html text/html 950 114 70 Babylonian clay brick from sixth century BC cuneiform inscription "Nebuchadnezzar support Esagila temple and temple Ezida (Borsippa). Clay tablet mentioning the dimensions of the Temples of Esagila and Ezida at Babylon. The Esagila complex, completed in its final form by Nebuchadnezzar II (604–562 BC) encasing earlier cores, was the center of Babylon. Esagila tablet[edit] Data from the Esagila tablet,[4] which was copied from older texts in 229 BC and describes Esagila in lines 1–15 before passing on to the ziggurat of Etemenanki, have aided in the temple's reconstruction. The Esagila tablet hold Babylonian calculating methods considered to be sacred as they read in the back "let the initiate show the initiate, the non-initiate must not see this". H. Weissbach, Das Hauptheiligtum des Marduk in Babylon: Esagila und Etemenanki in American Journal of Archaeology 48.3 (July, 1944), p. ^ a b The "Esagila" tablet, Louvre.fr External links[edit] Hidden categories: Coordinates on Wikidata Articles containing Sumerian-language text ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6454.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6454.txt