Palace of Sennacherib
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36.3573924, 43.151983
- OSM location of the Palace of Sennacherib (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Egalzagdinutukua (Sumerian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Palace Without a Rival (English, modern)
- South-West Palace (English, modern)
- bīt gišnugalli (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- ēkal šānina lā īšû (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Less than certain: Palace of Sennacherib near Akītu-Temple of Ištar (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Palace of Sennacherib near Badnigalbilukurašušu (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Palace of Sennacherib near Badnigerimhuluha (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Palace of Sennacherib near Citadel Gate (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Palace of Sennacherib near Citadel Wall of Nineveh (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Palace of Sennacherib near Ekituškuga (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Palace of Sennacherib near Emašmaš (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Palace of Sennacherib near Ezida (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Palace of Sennacherib near Kidmuri Temple (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh/Ninos (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Palace of Sennacherib near Step Gate of the Gardens (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Palace of Sennacherib near Step Gate of the Palace (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Palace of Sennacherib near Sîn-Šamaš Temple (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Palace of Naqi'a near Palace of Sennacherib (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Palace of Ashurbanipal near Palace of Sennacherib (720 BC - 540 BC)
architectural complex
Pleiades
Sennacherib's palace was built on the site of an existing Assyrian palace. That structure is described as being "360 cubits long, 80 cubits wide opposite the zamû-wall of the ziggurat, 134 cubits wide opposite the tower of the temple of the goddess Ištar, (and) 95 cubits wide opposite the tower of the Bit-Kidmuri."
The construction of Egalzagdinutuku was one of Sennacherib's most ambitious projects and its progress from beginning to end can be followed in Akkadian inscriptions composed between 702 and 691 B.C. The palace was sumptuously decorated with various types of wood, stone, and metal and its palatial halls were roofed with beams of cedar and cypress from Mounts Lebanon and Sirāra. Tall metal-banded door leaves were hung in the main gateways. Sennacherib also had numerous apotropaic colossi stationed in principal gateways and had the walls of many rooms and halls lined with sculpted limestone slabs, many of which were unearthed in the mid-nineteenth century.
This Assyrian palace is also referred to as the South-West Palace because it is located on the southwest part of the citadel mound of Nineveh (Kuyunjik). Sîn-šarra-iškun, Sennacherib's fourth successor, also referred to this building as "the palace of alabaster," presumably because its inner rooms were decorated with "two miles of bas-relief."
Jamie Novotny, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Palace of Sennacherib: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/179295730> [accessed: 10 December 2019]
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