Central Palace at Kalhu
a Pleiades
connection
resource
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History
The seventh-century-BC Assyrian king Esarhaddon (r. 680–669 BC) had his workmen dismantle the Central Palace of the eighth-century-BC ruler Tiglath-pileser III. Numerous (inscribed and sculpted) limestone wall slabs from that royal residence at Kalhu were reused in the Southwest Palace.
material sourced from
Certain
- Neo-Assyrian/Babylonian Middle East (720–540 BC) (confident)
Proleptic Julian years prior to establishment of the Gregorian calendar
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