Negub tunnel
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413309737
36.0446, 43.4762
- Representative Locations:
- CIGS location of Nigūb (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Tebiltu (Akkadian, 1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Negub tunnel located near Nimrud (1000 BC - 540 BC)
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tunnel
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The canal/tunnel was constructed by the early Neo-Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II when he moved the administrative capital of Assyrian from Ashur to Calah. It was rebuilt by the 7th-century B.C. king Esarhaddon.
Jamie Novotny, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Negub tunnel: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413309737> [accessed: 22 November 2024]
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