Ištar Gate
Creators: Jamie Novotny
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/152414541
36.5028590298, 43.2319358002
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- Ištar-mušammeḫat-nišīšu (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- 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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unlocated, gate (of a city), city gate
Pleiades
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.
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: 13 December 2024]
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