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Quay Gate

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jamie Novotny

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Feb 09, 2018 02:11 PM — History

tags: ANE

Nineveh's western wall had seven (or eight) gates: the Quay Gate was the fourth gate from the northern city wall. The Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib constructed it and gave it the Akkadian ceremonial name Mušēribat-miširti-dadmē, which means "The One Who Brings in Income from the Settlements."

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/130506467

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
36.353033, 43.154208

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- Uncertain: Conjectural location after Reade (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Mušēribat-miširti-dadmē (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Quay Gate (English, modern)
- abul kāri (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)

Quay Gate makes connections with:

Quay Gate part of (physical/topographic) Badnigalbilukurašušu (720 BC - 540 BC)
Quay Gate part of (physical/topographic) Badnigerimhuluha (720 BC - 540 BC)
Quay Gate part of (physical/topographic) Nineveh/Ninos (720 BC - 540 BC)

Quay Gate receives connections from:

None

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

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

The gate is mentioned in Akkadian inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib dating to 697-691 B.C. Some texts state that it was the second gate of the western stretch of wall, while others report that it was the seventh gate of the ten north- and west-facing gates.

The gate’s exact location is not known, but an aerial photograph of Nineveh taken in 1929 may indicate that the Quay Gate was about 400 m south of the citadel mound (Kuyunjik) and approximately 1,950 m south of the northwest corner of the city. That proposed location of the gate is now immediately south of a major modern street; a building is erected on that spot according to recent Google satellite imagery.

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Suggested citation:
Jamie Novotny, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Quay Gate: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/130506467> [accessed: 26 December 2024]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/130506467 |title=Places: 130506467 (Quay Gate) |author=Novotny, J. |accessdate=December 26, 2024 2:01 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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