Bēlet-ilī Gate
Creators: Jamie Novotny
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/21271258
36.5026245298, 43.2353918252
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- Bēlet-ilī-murappišat-talittīšu (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Bēlet-ilī Gate part of (physical/topographic) Aššur-mušalbir-palê-šarri-ēpišīšu-nāṣir-ummānīšu (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Bēlet-ilī Gate part of (physical/topographic) Dur-Sharrukin (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Less than certain: Bēlet-ilī Gate same as Khorsabad Gate 4 (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Bēlet-ilī 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 Bēlet-ilī Gate is the second of Dūr-Šarrukīn’s two south-facing (meḫret šūti) gates. Because ‘south’ (Akkadian šūtu) can refer to both southwest and southeast in Akkadian sources, it is uncertain if the Bēlet-ilī Gate was located on the city’s southwest or southeast wall and, therefore, it is uncertain if that entranceway to Sargon II’s newly-constructed capital should be identified as Khorsabad Gate 3, Gate 4, or Gate 5. Since one expects a plain gate to be dedicated to Bēlet-ilī, Gate 4, the southernmost portal on the southeast wall, seems to be the most plausible suggested location for the Bēlet-ilī Gate; Gate 3 is a grand, decorated entrance and, thus, seem unlikely to have been named after Bēlet-ilī.
Jamie Novotny, and Tom Elliott, 'Bēlet-ilī Gate: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/21271258> [accessed: 31 August 2024]
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