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Pāqidat-kalāma

a Pleiades name resource

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Akkadian ceremonial name of the Armory Gate, which means "The One Who Regulates Everything."

Pāqidat-kalāma


Akkadian

geographic name

accurate

complete

Certain

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

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Pleiades

Pāqidat-kalāma is mentioned in Akkadian inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib dating to 697-694 B.C. Sometime between mid-694 and early 691, the ceremonial name of the gate was changed to Lū-dāri-bānûša.