Information: - Marduk (Sumerian spelling in Akkadian: AMAR.UTU "solar calf"; Greek , "Mardochaios") was a late-generation god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon. When Babylon became the political center of the Euphrates valley in the time of Hammurabi (18th century BC), he slowly started to rise to the position of the head of the Babylonian pantheon, a position he fully acquired by the second half of the second millennium BC. In the city of Babylon, he resided in the temple Esagila. "Marduk" is the Babylonian form of his name. - Mesopotamia ("[land] between rivers"; from Ancient Armenian (Mijagetq); "bild ar-rfidayn" "miyn rodn"; "Beth Nahrain" "land of rivers") is a name for the area of the TigrisEuphrates river system, in modern days roughly corresponding to most of Iraq plus Kuwait, the eastern parts of Syria, Southeastern Turkey, and regions along the Turkish-Syrian and IranIraq borders. - Erra ( sometimes called Irra ) is an Akkadian plague god known from an ' epos ' of the eighth century BCE . Erra is the god of mayhem and pestilence who is responsible for periods of political confusion . In the epic that is given the modern title Erra , the writer Kabti - ilani - Marduk , a descendant , he says , of Dabibi , presents himself in a colophon following the text as simply the transcriber of a visionary dream in which Erra himself revealed the text . The poem opens with an invocation . The god Erra is sleeping fitfully with his consort ( identified with Mamtum and not with the mother goddess Mami ) but is roused by his advisor Isum and the Seven ( Sibitti or Sebetti ) , who are the sons of heaven and earth -- '' champions without peer '' is the repeated formula -- and are each assigned a destructive destiny by Anu . Machinist and Sasson ( 1983 ) call them '' personified weapons '' . The Sibitti call on Erra to lead the destruction of mankind . Isum tries to mollify Erra 's wakened violence , to no avail . Foreign peoples invade Babylonia , but are struck down by plague . Even Marduk , the patron of Babylon , relinquishes his throne to Erra for a time . Tablets II and III are occupied with a debate between Erra and Isum . Erra goes to battle in Babylon , Sippar , Uruk , Dr - Kurigalzu and Dr . The world is turned upside down : righteous and unrighteous are killed alike . Erra orders Isum to complete the work by defeating Babylon 's enemies . Then the god withdraws to his own seat in Emeslam with the terrifying Seven , and mankind is saved . A propitiatory prayer ends the work . The poem must have been central to Babylonian culture : at least thirty - six copies have been recovered from five first - millennium sites -- Assur , Babylon , Nineveh , Sultantepe and Ur -- more , even , as the assyriologist and historian of religions Luigi Giovanni Cagni points out , than have been recovered of the Epic of Gilgamesh . The text appears to some readers to be a mythologisation of historic turmoil in... - Babylon (or ; Aramaic: , "Babel", , "Bavel", , "Bbil") was a major city of ancient Mesopotamia in the fertile plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The city was built upon the Euphrates and divided in equal parts along its left and right banks, with steep embankments to contain the river's seasonal floods. Babylon was originally a small Semitic Akkadian city dating from the period of the Akkadian Empire c. 2300 BC. - Hammurabi (c. 1810 BC - 1750 BC) was the sixth king of the First Babylonian Dynasty, reigning from 1792 BC to 1750 BC (according to the Middle Chronology). He was preceded by his father, Sin-Muballit, who abdicated due to failing health. He extended Babylon's control throughout Mesopotamia through military campaigns. Hammurabi is known for the Code of Hammurabi, one of the earliest surviving codes of law in recorded history. The name "Hammurabi" derives from the Amorite term "Ammurpi" ("the kinsman is a healer"), itself from "Ammu" ("paternal kinsman") and "Rpi" ("healer"). - The Euphrates (Sumerian: : "Buranuna", : "Purattu", : "al-Furt", : "Prt", : "Yeprat", : "Perat", ) is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia. Together with the Tigris, it is one of the two defining rivers of Mesopotamia. Originating in eastern Turkey, the Euphrates flows through Syria and Iraq to join the Tigris in the Shatt al-Arab, which empties into the Persian Gulf. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'erra ' exhibits the relationship of 'instance of'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - area - chronology - city - deity - dynasty - generation - god - history - iran - king - military - name - position - river - temple - term - the city - time - turkey - two
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