(Esagila). ‘House whose top is high’, Sumerian name for the temple complex dedicated to the principal Babylonian deity Marduk in the centre of Babylon, which encompasses besides the Marduk temple at ground level, also called E., the temple-tower ( Tower of Babel) belonging to it, a great number of sanctuaries of various gods and large courtyard areas with utility rooms. In the ground-level temple there were the valuable cult images of Marduk and his wife Zarpanitum, who had her own chambers at her disposal there. The seven-storey, 92 m high temple-tower ( Ziggurrat)…