Wadi Bastura Tunnel Inscription
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Creators: Jamie Novotny
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 29, 2018 10:50 PM
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History
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ANE
Several stone blocks forming the entrance to a tunnel make up part of an aqueduct that Sennacherib had built to divert water from the Bastura River (a tributary of the Upper Zab) to Arbela, a principal cult city of the goddess Ištar. One ashlar block bears an eight-line inscription recording the construction of a (subterranean) watercourse.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/359792984
36.3516938, 44.1158443
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Bastura Tunnel (720 BC - 540 BC)
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- See Further:
Pleiades
Jamie Novotny, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Wadi Bastura Tunnel Inscription: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/359792984> [accessed: 07 August 2022]
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