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Esagila tablet, 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 tablet, described by
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ordered restorations, and the temple continued to be maintained throughout the 2nd century BC, as one of the last strongholds of
Babylonian culture, such as literacy in the
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