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Giššu Gate

a Pleiades place resource

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tags: ANE, Babylonian

The Neo-Babylonian kings Nabopolassar (r. 625–605 BC) and Nebuchadnezzar II (r. 604–562 BC) constructed an outer wall around the eastern side of Babylon. That mudbrick wall is reported to have had 120 towers and 5 entrances, including the Giššu Gate. This access point to the city was probably located on the southeastern stretch of the wall.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/124694415

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
32.540983, 44.45073

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- Proposed location of the Giššu Gate (720 BC - 30 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Abul-Giššu (Akkadian, 720 BC - 30 BC)
- Giššu Gate (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)

Giššu Gate makes connections with:

Giššu Gate part of (physical/topographic) Babylon (720 BC - 30 BC)
Giššu Gate part of (physical/topographic) Eastern Outer Wall of Babylon (720 BC - 30 BC)

Giššu Gate receives connections from:

None

Place type:
unlocated, gate (of a city), city gate

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

According to a text that might have been drawn up as an aide-memoire for Nebuchadnezzar II, the Babylonian king who completed the outer eastern wall of Babylon, the Giššu Gate is the third of the five gates and, presumably, the southernmost on the eastern stretch of wall. The “City Walls of Babylon C” text records that there were twenty-six towers between it and the Madānu Canal Gate (to the north) and twenty-three between it and the Sun of the Gods Gate (to the southwest).

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Suggested citation:
Jamie Novotny, 'Giššu Gate: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/124694415> [accessed: 19 April 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/124694415 |title=Places: 124694415 (Giššu Gate) |author=Novotny, J. |accessdate=April 19, 2024 7:07 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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