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tags: ANE

Everyday/common name of the Armory Gate.

Romanized Name(s):
abul ēkal māšarti

Name as attested:

Language:
Akkadian

Name type:
geographic name

Accuracy of transcription:
accurate

Level of transcription completeness:
complete

Level of certainty in association between name and the place:
Certain

Temporal attestations:

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

References:

See Further:

RINAP 3 Sennacherib 017 (Q003491)

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

The Armory Gate is mentioned in Akkadian inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib dating to 697-694 B.C. Sometime between mid-694 and early 691, that gate became the Step Gate of the Armory.

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