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Ekur
The Ekur, Sumerian for 'mountain house', was the temple of the god Enlil at Nippur in Mesopotamia and the most important religious centre of Sumer. Because Enlil was held to grant kingship, rulers of Kish, Uruk, Ur, Akkad and later Babylon sought recognition there and rebuilt the temple; Ur-Nammu built its ziggurat around 2100 BCE. Its supposed destruction by Naram-Sin of Akkad is the subject of the literary text known as the Curse of Agade.
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