temples - 2026 ACF Nationals

Packet 7: Tossup 8

At these locations, girls called gubabtu could undergo a process in which they were figuratively placed “in the lap.” Altaweel et al. recently discovered that sand sourced from an easterly mountain range was used to create a foundation beneath one of these locations. In Assyrian, the name Tiglath-Pileser means “my trust is in the son of” one of these locations. The symbol for “house,” written with a cuneiform sign denoted e2 or É (“E-acute”), appeared at the beginning of names of these locations like the Ebabbar. Nabonidus appointed (10[1])his daughter Ennigaldi-Nanna (-5[3])to the position of giparu (“GHIP-ah-roo”) at one of these (-5[1])locations called the (-5[1])Ekishnugal, (10[2])which he restored. (10[2]-5[1])Scholars criticize the view that at these locations, (-5[1])women of (10[1])nadītu status participated (10[2])in prostitution. (10[4])For (10[1])10 points, (10[1])the Eanna (“ay-ANN-uh”) at Uruk (10[1])was one of what locations dedicated to the cult of Ishtar? ■END■ (10[5]0[1])

ANSWER: temples [or ēkurrum or ēkurrātum or ēkurrū; accept bīt ilim; accept gegunnûm; accept sanctuaries; accept shrines; accept Mesopotamian or Assyrian or Babylonian or Sumerian temples; accept house of the gods or clear equivalents; accept ziggurats; accept specific temples to Ishtar or Ashur or Shamash or Sîn; prompt on Esharra by asking “that was the name of what type of location?”; prompt on houses until read; prompt on bītum; reject “palace” or “ekallum”] (The figurative expression refers to being placed in the lap of the god. The sand deposit is under the temple of Ishtar at Assur and provides evidence for the date of its establishment. The Assyrian name is Tukultī-apil-Esharra.)

<Editors, Other History> | G. Prelims 7 - Georgia Tech A + Berkeley A + Bruin + Georgetown

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Player	Team	Opponent	Buzzpoint	Value
Andrew Wang	Illinois A	Brown	86	10
William Houston	Chicago B	Michigan	89	-5
Ethan Bosita	Stanford B	Johns Hopkins	89	-5
June Yin	WashU	Harvard	89	-5
Orion Keller	Virginia Tech	Minnesota	98	-5
Jacob Puthipiroj	Northwestern A	Georgia Tech C	101	-5
Jakob Myers	Indiana	NYU B	102	10
Evan Gniadek	Purdue	Maryland B	102	10
Justin Wytmar	NYU A	Northwestern B	105	10
Simon Zimmerman	Ohio State	Swarthmore	105	-5
Terrence Han	UCLA	Georgia Tech B	105	10
Anh Khoa Tran	UCF	British Columbia	113	-5
Teigue Kelly	Penn State	Toronto A	115	10
Yrwin Batan	MIT	Cornell	118	10
Ariel Faeder	Pittsburgh	Waterloo	118	10
Robert Wang	Columbia A	Cambridge	120	10
Athena Shadden	Texas	Chicago A	120	10
Michał Gerasimiuk	Stanford A	Toronto B	120	10
Truman Hill	Vanderbilt	UC Berkeley B	120	10
Joseph Chambers	Virginia	North Carolina	121	10
Yashwanth Bajji	Michigan	Chicago B	123	10
Olin Bose	Columbia B	Maryland A	127	10
Joel Miles	Minnesota	Virginia Tech	139	10
Graham Cope	Georgia Tech C	Northwestern A	139	10
Sim Spurrier	Swarthmore	Ohio State	139	10
Sinecio Morales	Johns Hopkins	Stanford B	139	0
Matthew Wang	British Columbia	UCF	139	10
Michael Kearney	Harvard	WashU	139	10

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