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Conjectural location after Reade

a Pleiades location resource

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The representative, estimated location of the gate is based on Reade, SAAB 22 (2016), 48 (fig. 7) and 53 (fig. 12).

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Feature type:
gate (of a city), city gate

Geometry and coordinates (long, lat order):
{ "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ 43.154208, 36.353033 ] }

Archaeological remains:
Unknown

Association certainty:
Uncertain

Positional Accuracy Assessment:
Google Earth and Partners Imagery 2016 and following

Location type:
representative

Temporal attestations:

Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian Middle East (720–540 BC) (confident)

References:

See Further:

Reade 2016 48 (fig. 7) and 53 (fig. 12)

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

The gate’s approximate location is based an aerial photograph of Nineveh taken in 1929, which seems to indicate that the Quay Gate was about 400 m south of the citadel mound (Kuyunjik).

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Conjectural location after Reade