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Barhalzi Gate

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jamie Novotny

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Feb 10, 2018 09:06 AM — History

tags: ANE

Nineveh's western wall had seven (or eight) gates: the Barhalzi Gate was the sixth gate from the northern city wall. The Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib constructed it sometime between 694 and 691 B.C. and gave it the Akkadian ceremonial name Anum-nāṣir-napištīya, which means "The God Anu Is the Protector of My Life."

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/156485251

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
36.344742, 43.16281

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- Uncertain: Conjectural location after Reade (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Anum-nāṣir-napištīya (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Barhalzi Gate (English, modern)
- abul pilku Barhalzi (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)

Barhalzi Gate makes connections with:

Barhalzi Gate part of (physical/topographic) Badnigalbilukurašušu (720 BC - 540 BC)
Barhalzi Gate part of (physical/topographic) Badnigerimhuluha (720 BC - 540 BC)
Barhalzi Gate part of (physical/topographic) Nineveh/Ninos (720 BC - 540 BC)

Barhalzi Gate receives connections from:

None

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

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

The gate is mentioned in an Akkadian inscription of the Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib dating to 691 B.C. and, therefore, must have been built sometime between mid-694 and early 691. In that text, the Barhalzi Gate is the sixth gate of the western stretch of wall; the gates are listed from north to south.

The gate’s approximate location is based an aerial photograph of Nineveh taken in 1929 and Corona satellite imagery (1967-68). The Barhalzi Gate might have been located about 3,200 m from the northwestern corner of Nineveh and 1,000 m from the southern corner of the city.

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Suggested citation:
Jamie Novotny, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Barhalzi Gate: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/156485251> [accessed: 18 April 2024]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/156485251 |title=Places: 156485251 (Barhalzi Gate) |author=Novotny, J. |accessdate=April 18, 2024 8:20 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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