Sun of the Gods Gate
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/124694416
32.533504, 44.444396
- Representative Locations:
- Proposed location of the Sun of the Gods Gate (720 BC - 30 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Abul-Šamaš-ilī (Akkadian, 720 BC - 30 BC)
- Sun of the Gods Gate (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Sun of the Gods Gate part of (physical/topographic) Babylon (720 BC - 30 BC)
- Sun of the Gods 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 Sun of the Gods Gate is the fourth of the five gates and, presumably, the easternmost on the southern stretch of wall. The “City Walls of Babylon C” text records that there were twenty-three towers between it and the Giššu Gate (to the northeast) and thirty between it and the Seashore Gate (to the west).
Jamie Novotny, 'Sun of the Gods Gate: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/124694416> [accessed: 15 October 2024]
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