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Negub tunnel

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jamie Novotny
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Rune Rattenborg
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Jun 14, 2023 01:33 PM — History
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The Negub tunnel was part of an irrigation system that supported the Assyrian royal city of Nimrud.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413309737

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    • Tebiltu (Akkadian, 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.


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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: 23 December 2024] 

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