Khorsabad Gate 6
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The Ištar Gate, the sixth of the eight city gates of Dūr-Šarrukīn mentioned in Sargon II’s royal inscriptions, might be identified as decorated Khorsabad Gate 6, the northernmost entrance on the southwest wall.
Because there is no one-to-one correlation between Sargon’s inscriptions and available archaeological evidence, the proposed identification of the Ištar Gate with Khorsabad Gate 6 remains open to debate. Alternative locations have been suggested: undecorated Gate 5 and plain Gate 7. Because one expects a grand gate to be named after Ištar, Gate 6 seems to be the most plausible suggested location for the Ištar Gate.
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- Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian Middle East (720–540 BC) (confident)
Proleptic Julian years prior to establishment of the Gregorian calendar
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