Khorsabad Gate 4
Creators: Jamie Novotny
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/375821777
36.4969081, 43.2415394
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Khorsabad Gate 4 (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Gate 4 (English, AD 1800 - AD 2099)
- Khorsabad Gate 4 part of (physical/topographic) Aššur-mušalbir-palê-šarri-ēpišīšu-nāṣir-ummānīšu (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Khorsabad Gate 4 part of (physical/topographic) Dur-Sharrukin (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Khorsabad Gate 4 located near Khorsabad Gate 3 (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Khorsabad Gate 4 part of (physical/topographic) Ninurta-mukīn-temmēn-ālišu-ana-labār-ūmē-rūqūti (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Less than certain: Bēlet-ilī Gate same as Khorsabad Gate 4 (720 BC - 540 BC)
gate (of a city), city gate
Pleiades
This gate has been tentatively identified as the Adad Gate (Alexander Sollee), the Bēlet-ilī Gate (Laura Battini, Jamie Novotny), the Ea Gate (Andreas Fuchs), and the Šamaš Gate (Beate Pongratz-Leisten). Because there is no one-to-one correlation between Sargon’s inscriptions and available archaeological evidence, the proposed identification of the ancient name of Khorsabad Gate 4 remains open to debate. Since one expects a plain, decorated entranceway to be associated with the goddess Bēlet-ilī, Gate 4 might have been dedicated to that deity; a decorated gate is expected for the god Šamaš and, thus, unlikely that Gate 4 would have been named after the sun-god.
Jamie Novotny, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Khorsabad Gate 4: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/375821777> [accessed: 27 March 2025]
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