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Ištar Gate

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jamie Novotny

Contributors: Tom Elliott

Last modified Jan 03, 2021 08:17 AM — History

The Ištar Gate, which was given the Akkadian ceremonial name Ištar-mušammeḫat-nišīšu ("The Goddess Ištar Is the One Who Makes Its People Flourish"), is the sixth of the eight city gates of Dūr-Šarrukīn ("Fort Sargon") listed by Sargon II (r. 721–705 BC) in inscriptions recording the construction of his new capital. This gate is the second of the west-facing entrances to the city, but its precise location is uncertain.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/152414541

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
36.5028590298, 43.2319358002

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Geographic Names:
- Ištar-mušammeḫat-nišīšu (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)

Ištar Gate makes connections with:

Ištar Gate part of (physical/topographic) Aššur-mušalbir-palê-šarri-ēpišīšu-nāṣir-ummānīšu (720 BC - 540 BC)
Ištar Gate part of (physical/topographic) Dur-Sharrukin (720 BC - 540 BC)
Less than certain: Ištar Gate same as Khorsabad Gate 6 (720 BC - 540 BC)
Ištar Gate part of (physical/topographic) Ninurta-mukīn-temmēn-ālišu-ana-labār-ūmē-rūqūti (720 BC - 540 BC)

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

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

The Ištar Gate is the second of Dūr-Šarrukīn’s two west-facing (meḫret amurri) gates. Because ‘west’ (Akkadian amurru) can refer to both northwest and southwest in Akkadian sources, it is uncertain if the Ištar Gate was located on the city’s northwest or southwest wall and, therefore, it is uncertain if that entranceway to Sargon II’s newly-constructed capital should be identified as Khorsabad Gate 5, Gate 6, or Gate 7. Since one expects a grand gate to be dedicated to Ištar, Gate 6, the northernmost portal on the southwest wall, seems to be the most plausible suggested location for the Ištar Gate; Gate 5 and Gate 7 are both undecorated entrances and, thus, seem unlikely to have been named after this important goddess.

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Suggested citation:
Jamie Novotny, and Tom Elliott, 'Ištar Gate: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/152414541> [accessed: 18 April 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/152414541 |title=Places: 152414541 (Ištar Gate) |author=Novotny, J. |accessdate=April 18, 2024 1:35 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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