Quay Gate
Creators: Jamie Novotny
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/130506467
36.353033, 43.154208
- Representative Locations:
- Uncertain: Conjectural location after Reade (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Mušēribat-miširti-dadmē (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Quay Gate (English, modern)
- abul kāri (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- 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)
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unlocated, gate (of a city), city gate
Pleiades
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.
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: 18 April 2024]
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