Šamaš Gate
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jamie Novotny Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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The Šamaš Gate is one of Babylon's eight city gates and it is situated on the southwestern side of the inner city, directly south of the Tuba quarter. King Nebuchadnezzar II built the gate ca. 575 B.C.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/386554382
32.527, 44.420733
- Representative Locations:
- Uncertain: Proposed location of the Šamaš Gate (1600 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Abul-Šamaš (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Šamaš Gate (English, modern)
- Šamaš-išid-ummāni-kīn (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Šamaš Gate part of (physical/topographic) Babylon (1600 BC - 540 BC)
- Šamaš Gate part of (physical/topographic) Imgur-Enlil (1600 BC - 540 BC)
- Šamaš Gate part of (physical/topographic) Nēmed-Enlil (1600 BC - 540 BC)
- Šamaš Gate bounds Tuba (1600 BC - 30 BC)
- Less than certain: Ekitušgarza located near Šamaš Gate (720 BC - 540 BC)
unlocated, gate (of a city), city gate
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The German excavators of Babylon did not excavate any of the city gates west of the Euphrates; the Šamaš Gate was one of four unexcavated gates of the inner city.
Jamie Novotny, 'Šamaš Gate: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/386554382> [accessed: 16 April 2024]
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