Giššu Gate
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/124694415
32.540983, 44.45073
- Representative Locations:
- Proposed location of the Giššu Gate (720 BC - 30 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Abul-Giššu (Akkadian, 720 BC - 30 BC)
- Giššu Gate (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- 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)
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unlocated, gate (of a city), city gate
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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).
Jamie Novotny, 'Giššu Gate: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/124694415> [accessed: 12 November 2024]
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